DUKE
UNIVERSITY
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NORTH CAROLINA
BAPTIST
ANNUAL
ONE-RUNDRED-THIRTEENTH
YEAR
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
WINSTON-SALEM
1943
Annual
of the
North Carolina
Baptist State Convention
One Hundred Thirteenth Annual Session
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Winston-Salem
November 16-18, 1943
Edited by
Charles B. Deane
Recording Secretary
Rockingham, N. C.
The next Session will be held
November 21-23, 1944
First Baptist Church, Charlotte
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 3^ //^
ll T 3" SECTION PAGE
Auditor's Report and Financial Statements, Institutions 128
Baptist Book Store, executives of 5
Baptist Foundation, directors of 6
Baptist Hospital, trustees of 6
Baptist Orphanage of North Carolina, trustees of 7
Baptist Training Union, executives of 5
Baptist World Alliance, executives of 10
Biblical Recorder, directors of 7
Campbell College, trustees of 8
Charity and Children, directory of 7
Chowan College, trustees of 8
Committees :
Allied Church League (14) 26
Committee on Committees (5) 21
Constitutional Changes (14) 26
Enrollment (3) 21
General Board, to report on report of (14) 25
General Secretary, to purchase home for (14) 26
Historical Commission (14) 26
Music (14) 26
Non-Resident Church Members (14) 26
Order of Business (1944) (14) 25
Place and Preacher (14) 25
Publicity (14) 25
Resolutions (14) 25
Social Service and Civic Righteousness : (14) 26
Trustees and Members General Board, to nominate (14) 26
Constitution 11
Clarification (34) 39
Convention :
Audit — Income and Disbursements (74) 76
Directory 5
Associational 221
Historical Table 223 ■
Institutions . . . .- 6, 9
Officers, executive and administrative 5
Officers elected:
General Secretary (4) 21
President (67) 55
Vice Presidents (67) 55
Recording Secretary (4) 21
Statistical Secretary (4) 21
Proceedings of (1) 21
Sermon — Oscar Creech, Ahoskie (16) 27
General Board:
By-Laws 16
Officers and organizations 5
Report (71) 69
Greetings (10) 24
Kennedy Home, Superintendent of 7
Mars Hill College, trustees of 8
Meredith College, trustees of 9
Messengers 60
Ministers :
Winston-Salem and Neighboring Ministers recognized (7) 23
New Ministers recognized (8) 24
Ordained, active in pastorate 235
Ordained, not active in pastorate 248
Ordained, now serving as chaplains in Armed Services 234
Ministerial Students in colleges and seminaries 230
Missionaries, North Carolina, on foreign field 229
"Our Dead" 58
Pastors' Conference :
Officers 1944 9
Program 1943 59
Reports :
American Bible Society (69) 56
Baptist Book Store _.yjj ^ <r> J . j|. (101) 122
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Baptist Colleges
General Statistics 113
Baptist Foundation (103) 123
Baptist Hospital (49) (99) 45, 117
Audit Summary 120
Baptist Training Union (86) 98
Biblical Recorder (19) 27
Campbell College (52) (89) 45, 108
Church Extension (78) 86
Committee on Committees (14) 25
Cooperative Program (100) 122
Education Commission (53) 45
Education, Department of Christian (56) (84) 48, 94
Enrollment 21
Foreign Mission (31) 38
Gardner-Webb College (52) 45
General Board :
Advance Report (13) 25
Committee, to report on report of (62) 49
Huggins, Maloy A., Report General Secretary (71) 69
Meetings (75) 79
Recommendations (104) 126
General Missionaries (76-1) 83
Historical Commission (45) (102) 43, 123
Home Missions (37) 41
Indian Work (79) 87
Mars Hill College (52) (92) 45, 109
Meredith College (52) (93) 45, 110
Missions, Department of (76) 82
State (35) (76) 40, 82
Negro Baptists, work of (80) 88
North Carolina Baptist Orphanage (48) (98) 44, 116
Audit Summary 133
Order of Business 1943 (6) 21
Oteen Mission (81) 91
Pastoral Assistance (77) 86
Place and Preacher ', (44) 43
Publicity Committee (63) 51
Radio (64) 52
Resolutions Committee (66) 54
Relief and Annuity (97) 115
Sanatoriums and Samarcand (82) (83) 92, 93
Seminaries (40) 43
Social Service and Civic Righteousness (22) 31
Student Work (87) 101
Sunday Schools (85) 95
Sunday School Board (27) 37
Trustees and Members General Board, to nominate (65) 52
Trustees of Convention (46) 43
Wake Forest College (52) (94) 45, 110
Chapel (38) 42
Wingate Junior College (52) (95) 45, 112
Woman's Missionary Union (21) 30
Resolutions Approved:
In Re, Baptist Hospital, to increase trustees (49) 45
In Re, General Secretary, to purchase home (39) 42
Ridgecrest, directory of 9
Southern Baptist Convention, directory of 10
Statistical Data :
Associational 138
Recapitulation 217
General Church Activities 218
Statistical Summary 226
Southern Baptist Convention 1942 220
Student Secretaries 5
Sunday School, executives of 5
Visitors Recognized (9) 24
Wake Forest College, trustees of 9
Woman's Missionary Union:
Directory 228
Executives 5
Statistical Summary 228
DIRECTORY OF THE CONVENTION
I. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem President
Perry Crouch, Asheville 1st Vice President
Claude F. Gaddy, Raleigh 2nd Vice President
J. W. Kincheloe, Rocky Mount 3rd Vice President
Maloy A. Huggins, Raleigh General Secretary and Treasurer
Charles B. Deane, Rockingham Recording Secretary
L. L. Morgan, Raleigh Statistical Secretary
R. L. McMillan, Raleigh Trustee
P. H. Wilson, Raleigh Trustee
F. H. Brooks, Smithfield Trustee
II. OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION
Headquarters: 200-216 Biblical Recorder Building, Raleigh, N. C.
Maloy A. Huggins, Raleigh General Secretary and Treasurer
Miss Margie Murchison, Raleigh Office Secretary
Miss Esther Ivey, Raleigh Bookkeeper
Miss Margie Murchison, Raleigh Bookkeeper Debt Service Fund
Miss Lottie Tucker, Raleigh Bookkeeper Ministers' Retirement Fund
DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS
W. H. Moore, Raleigh General Missionary
J. C. Pipes, Route 1, Asheville General Missionary
E. L. Spivey, 220 W. Kingston Ave., Charlotte General Missionary
Division of Sunday Schools
L. L. Morgan, Raleigh Secretary
Miss Joy Wood, Raleigh Office Secretary
John B. Lane, Lexington Field Worker
Mrs. John B. Lane, Lexington Field Worker
Division of Baptist Training Union
W. Wilbur Hutchins, Raleigh Secretary
Miss Margaret Sparks, Raleigh Intermediate Worker
Miss Mary Lou Wall, Raleigh Office Secretary
Division of Student Activities
R. T. Howerton, Jr., Raleigh State Student Secretary
Miss Adelaide Charles, Raleigh Office Secretary
Mrs. John E. Lawrence, Greensboro \ Campus Secretary
Miss Mary Lee Ernest, Greenville Campus Secretary
Miss Louise Green, Boone Campus Secretary
BAPTIST BOOK STORE
Mrs. Roger P. Marshall, Raleigh Manager
Mrs. John M. Link, Raleigh Associate
Miss Mary Ayscue, Raleigh Associate
Miss Iva Sue Maddry, Raleigh Associate
Mrs. Mary Mangum, Raleigh Clerk
DEPARTMENT OF WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Mrs. J. S. Farmer, Raleigh President
Miss Mary Currin, Raleigh Executive Secretary
Miss Ora Alf ord, Raleigh Treasurer
Miss Kathryn Abee, Raleigh Young People's Leader
Mrs. Edna Buffaloe. Raleigh Stenographer
Miss Ruth Keller, Raleigh Field Worker
A. T. Greene, Jr., Raleigh Royal Ambassador Secretary
III. THE GENERAL BOARD AND ORGANIZATION
E. N. Gardner, President, Henderson
Clyde E. Baucom, Vice President, Wilson
Charles B. Deane, Secretary, Rockingham
Term Expiring 1944 — W. A. Ayers, Shelby; J. Winston Pearce, Durham; Mrs. J
T. Alderman, Henderson; Nane Starnes, Asheville; W. B. Carr, Mooresville; L ' M
Davis, Beaufort; S. M. Robinson, Canton; G. H. Ferguson, Raleigh; R. C. Foster, Leaks-
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ville; B. D. Burin, Oxford; Y. C. Elliott, Lincolnton; J. A. Neilson, Thomasville; J. B.
Turner, Laurinburg; Roy D. Campbell, Bakersville; W. L. Warfford, Carthage; A. B.
Cash, Murphy.
Term Expiring 1945— Claude F. Caddy, Raleigh; S. C. Eggers, Boone; T. W. Fryer,
New Bern; M. L. Banister, Oxford; Hubert M. Craig, Stanley; J. D. McCready, Mor-
ganton; W. W. Jones, Kannapolis; James H. Smith, Greensboro; A. J. Whitley, Jr.,
Smithfield; H. M. Hocutt, Biltmore; Donald G. Myers, Mount Olive; E. N. Gardner,
Henderson; A. B. Wood, Charlotte; Mrs. R. K. Redwine, Mt. Airy; John R. Link, Apex;
J. R. Morgan, Waynesville.
Term Expiring 19J6— Clyde E. Baucom, Wilson; J. B. Efird, Charlotte; T. L. Cash-
well, Gastonia; N. D. Fox, Sparta; A. B. Alderman, Snow Hill; Carey P. Herring, Fair-
mont; Earle L. Bradley, Wilmington; W. E. Stanley, Durham; Lloyd Griffin, Edenton;
C. F. Gore, Weldon; S. L. Morgan, Jr., Dunn; Santford Martin, Winston-Salem; B. G.
Henry, Tryon; Louis S. Gaines, Fayetteville; Harry Y. Gamble, Statesville; J. E. Baker,
Burlington.
Executive Committee: E. N. Gardner, Chairman; R. C. Foster, Vice Chairman; M.
L. Banister, Secretary ; J. Winston Pearce, Claude F. Gaddy, Louis S. Gaines, W. E.
Stanley, Ralph A. Herring, ex. of.
Committee on Missions: Clyde E. Baucom, Chairman; T. W. Fryer, Secretary; M.
L. Banister, S. C. Eggers, M. Leslie Davis, Nane Starnes, A. B. Wood, Hubert M.
Craig, J. B. Efird, Carey P. Herring, Harry Y. Gamble, James B. Turner.
Committee on Training Activities: L. S. Gaines, Chairman; Y. C. Elliott, Secretary;
H. M. Hocutt, A. B. Cash, Mrs. R. K. Redwine, W. B. Carr, J. Winston Pearce, C. F.
Gore, M. D. Fox, B. G. Henry, Lloyd Griffin, J. E. Baker.
Committee on Education: Claude F. Gaddy, Chairman ; Donald G. Meyers, Secretary ;
J. D. McCready, J. R. Morgan, John R. Link, Mrs. J. T. Alderman, B. D. Bunn, G. H.
Ferguson, R. C. Foster, James H. Smith, Santford Martin, A. B. Alderman.
Committee on Benevolence: W. A. Ayers, Chairman; W. W. Jones, Secretary ; Walter
L. Warfford, Roy D. Campbell, J. A. Neilson, S. M. Robinson, A. J. Whitley, T. L.
Cashwell, Earle L. Bradley, W. E. Stanley, S. L. Morgan, Jr., E. N. Gardner.
IV. THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE CONVENTION
BAPTIST FOUNDATION
Authorized by Baptist State Convention, November 12, 1919
Organized December IS, 1919
First meeting of Directors, November 17, 1920
T. S. Johnston, Secretary, Raleigh
Term Expiring 1944- J. D. Wilkins, Greensboro; J. Ray Morgan, Waynesville; E. M.
Johnson, Lumberton.
Term Expiring 1945— T. S. Johnson, Raleigh; Clarence Howell, Raleigh; Mrs. R. M.
Squires, Wake Forest.
Term Expiring 1946— Earl C. James, Elkin; Joe S. Correll, Raleigh; George Pennell,
Asheville.
Term Expiring 1947 — R. L. Patton. Morganton; Bruce Benton, Rockingham; *Oscar
Haywood, Mt. Gilead.
Term Expiring 1948— W. F. Marshall, Walnut Cove; Guy Carswell, Charlotte; W. E.
Goode, Scotland Neck.
BAPTIST HOSPITAL
Authorized by Baptist State Convention, November 17, 1920
Chartered December 27, 1922
Began Operations, May 28, 1923
Smith Hagaman, Superintendent, Winston-Salem
Board of Trustees
J. S. Lynch, President, Winston-Salem
Term Expiring 194<i — Coy C. Carpenter, Winston-Salem; R. K. Redwine, Mount Airy;
B. F. Bray, Marion; W. K. Rand, Durham; J. S. Lynch, Winston-Salem; A. D. Kinnett'
Burlington.
Term Expiring 1945 — E. F. Tullock, Winston-Salem; W. K. McGee, Thomasville-
Irving E. Carlyle, Winston-Salem; O. M. Mull. Shelby; B. B. Dougherty Boone- R 1
Wall, Winston-Salem.
Term Expiring 1946 J. Wilbur Crews, Winston-Salem; E. L. Davis, Winston-Salem-
Don C. Young, Asheville; Mrs. J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro; J. A. Naylor Winston-
Salem; T. W. Baker, Charlotte.
Term Expiring 1947 — Mrs. J. J. Roddick, Winston-Salem; G. E. Tucker, Winston-
Salem; W. Grady Southern, Winston-Salem; John R. Knott, Charlotte; E. L. Layfield,
Raleigh ; B. A. Bowers, Gastonia.
* Deceased.
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baptist orphanage of north carolina
mills home
General Managership began January 12, 1885
First orphan, Mary Presson, received November 11, 1885
Ike G. Greer, General Superintendent, Thomasville
R. D. Covington, Treasurer, Thomasville
CHARITY AND CHILDREN
John Arch McMillan, Editor, Thomasville
C. M. Howell, Plant Superintendent, Thomasville
Published every Thursday by the Baptist Orphanage of North Carolinj
Orphanage Journal of the Baptists of North Carolina
Founded in 1887 by John H. Mills
Former Editors
♦ John H. Mills, July 14, 1887 to July 27, 1888; J. W. Oliver, August 3, 1888 to August
24, 1888; John H. Mills, August 31, 1888 to August 30, 1895; Vacant,
September 6, 1895 to October 4, 1895; Archibald Johnson, October
11, 1895 to January 10, 1935; John Arch McMillan, Associate
Editor, October 31, 1929 to Tanuary 10, 1935. Acting
Editor January 17, 1935 to May 9, 1935;
Editor May 16, 1935 —
Circulation, 28,756 — Price, $1.00 per year
KENNEDY HOME BRANCH
Transfer of property, April 26, 1912
First group admitted, June 5, 1914
W. C. Reed, Superintendent, Kinston
Board of Trustees
Zeno Wall, President, Shelby
Term Expiring 1944— Zeno Wall, Shelby; H. S. Stokes, Winston-Salem; Robert A.
Mclntyre, Lumberton; Glenn Choate, Salisbury.
Term Expiring 1945— Charles Shields, Scotland' Neck; J. W. Noell, Roxboro; T. H.
Broyhill, Lenoir; W. M. York, Greensboro; Carroll C. Wall, Lexington.
Term Expiring 1946- Carl Hood, Asheville; J. H. Canaday, Kinston; John T. Coley,
Rocky Mount; H. W. Baucom, Sr., Wake Forest.
Term Expiring 1947— Homer Andrews, Burlington; W. T. Love, Jr., Elizabeth City;
T. P. Pruitt, Hickory; Mrs. F. A. Bower, Morganton; Mrs. E. B. Gentry, Charlotte.
BIBLICAL RECORDER
L. L. Carpenter, Editor, Raleigh
Published every Wednesday in Raleigh, ^ as the Journal of the Baptist State Convention
ot North Carolina
Founded in 1833 by Thomas Meredith in Edenton. Moved to New Bern in 1835, then to
Raleigh in 1838. Publication suspended in 1841, but resumed in 1843. Originally
incorporated 1901 and owned by the Biblical Recorder Publishing Company until
purchased by The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina in 1938.
On January 4, 1939 the first issue was published by the Convention.
Former Editors
Thomas Meredith, 1833-51; T. W. Tobey, 1851-53; J. J. James, 1854-61; J. D. Hufham,
1861-67; J. H. Mills, 1867-73; A. F. Redd and J. D. Hufham, 1873-74; C T
Bailey, 1875-95; Josiah W. Bailey, 1895-1907; C. W. Blanchard, 1907; Hight
C. Moore, 1907-17; Livingston Johnson, 1917-31; J. S. Farmer, 1931-38;
George W. Paschal, Contributing Editor, 1938-39; and Acting Editor,
1939; John Calvin Slemp, 1939-41; Eugene I. Olive,
1941-42; L. L. Carpenter, 1942.
Circulation, 14,434 — Price, $2.00 a year
Board of Directors
Eugene I. Olive, Chairman, Wake Forest
Term Expiring 1944 — L. R. Harrill, Raleigh; R. E. Price, Rutherfordton; Eugene I.
Olive, Wake Forest; O. R. Mangum, Lenoir.
Term Expiring 1945— J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro; W. Perrv Crouch, Asheville; Lee
C. Shepherd, Raleigh; Marshall L. Mott, Winston-Salem.
Term Expiring 1946— E. F. Sullivan, Hickory; J. Glenn Blackburn, Lumberton; John
T. Wayland, Durham; Garland A. Hendricks, Apex.
Term Expiring 1947— Oscar Creech, Ahoskie; E. H. Potts, Elizabeth City; Carl M.
Townsecd, Ralsigb; Henry B. Anderson, Durham.
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V. TRUSTEES OF VARIOUS COLLEGES
CAMPBELL COLLEGE
Opened as Buie's Creek Academy, January S, 1887
Became Buie's Creek Junior College, August 31, 1926
Authorized by Baptist State Convention to become Campbell College
December 17, 1926
New Charter Campbell College Adopted by Trustees April 7, 1927
Leslie H. Campbell, President, Buie's Creek
Board of Trustees
B. F. McLeod, Chairman, Buie's Creek
Term Expiring 1944 — James I. Miller, Wilson; D. T. Dickie, Henderson; D. H.
Senter, Chalybeate Springs; W. H. Upchurch, Oxford; W. C. Lucas, Asheboro.
Term Expiring 1945— S. F. Teague, Raleigh; G. F. Pope, Dunn; Mrs. W. M. Morgan,
Angier; Mrs. Eugene I. Olive, Wake Forest; H. B. Taylor, Dunn.
Term Expiring 1946— B. F. McLeod, Buie's Creek; A. Lincoln Fulk, Washington;
Jere D. Freeman. Wilmington; Mrs. J. G. Layton, Lillington; J. E. Lanier, Winton.
Term Expiring 1947— George W. Davis, Farmville; Henry B. Day, Sr., Raleigh; R. B.
Wilkins, Durham; R. M. Olive, Fayetteville; W. C. Downing, Fayetteville.
CHOWAN COLLEGE
Founded and opened for students as Chowan Female Institute
October 11, 1848
First called Chowan Female College Institute in 18S1
First called Chowan Baptist Female Institute in 1868
Became Chowan College, May 17, 1910
Changed to a Junior College, September 1937
Board of Trustees
Mayon Parker, President, Ahoskie
Term Expiring 1944— Mrs. R. P. Morehead, Weldon; George W. Underwood, Murfrees-
boro; P. J. Long, Jackson; W. D. Boone, Winton; B. H. Ward, Sunbury.
Term Expiring 1945 — W. J. Rountree, Hobbsville; John O. Askew, Harrellsville; W.
Harry Stephenson, Pendleton; W. T. Love, Jr., Elizabeth Ctiy; J. W. Holmes, Farmville.
Term Expiring 1946— J. H. Matthews, Windsor; A. L. Lassiter, Potecasi; R. R. Jack-
son, Harrellsville; J. T. Bolton, Rich Square; S. P. Winborne, Como.
Term Expiring 1947— *J. P. Holoman, Weldon; tj. J. White, Greenville; Bailey Barnes,
Ahoskie; J. M. Duncan, Murfreesboro; J. Mayon Parker, Ahoskie.
MARS HILL COLLEGE
First Commencement or Exhibition as French Broad Baptist Institute
July 4, 1857
Chartered Mars Hill College, February 16, 1859
Opened as Mars Hill Junior College, August 14, 1922
Hoyt Blackwell, President, Mars Hill
Board of Trustees
E. F. Watson, President, Spruce Pine
Term Expiring 1944 — Wm. Marvin Scruggs, Charlotte; W. T. Duckworth, Asheville;
C. M. Wall, Lexington; E. F. Watson, Spruce Pine; W. H. Wray, Gastonia; Mrs. Rush
Stroup, Shelby.
Term Expiring 1945 — J. Ben Eller, Greensboro; D. C. Bryson, Sylva; W. Locke
Robinson, Mars Hill; C. E. Blackstock, Asheville; W. R. Chambers, Marion; Emory
C. McCall, Lenoir; Mrs. Paul P. Davis, Yadkinville.
Term Expiring 1946 — Julian A. Glazener, Brevard; Roy Wall, Mars Hill; A. W.
Whitehurst, Marshall; Mrs. C. M. Palmer, Albemarle; Robert O. Huffman, Morganton;
fMrs. Carl Bamford, Asheville.
Term Expiring 1947— J. R. Owen, Asheville; Mrs. W. E. Logan, West Asheville;
J. B. Grice, West Asheville; W. II. Hipps, Asheville; James B. Keith, Asheville; Horace
G. Hammett, Waynesville.
* Deceased.
f Declined to serve.
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meredith college
Incorporated as Baptist Female University of North Carolina, February 27, 1891
Opened for Students, September 27, 1899
By Legislative enactment became Baptist University for Women, January 20, 1905
Became Meredith College by Legislative enactment, January 24, 1911
Carlyle Campbell, President, Raleigh
Board of Trustees
W. H. Weatherspoon, President, Raleigh
Term Expiring 1944 — Mrs. Foy Johnson Farmer, Raleigh; Z. M. Caveness, Raleigh;
C. T. Council, Durham; J. Y. Joyner, La Grange; LeRoy Martin, Raleigh; Mrs. Anna
Kitchin Josey, Scotland Neck.
Term Expiring- 1945 — E. J. Britt, Lumberton; William Harrison Williams, Charlotte;
Sankey L. Blanton, Wilmington; R. N. Simms, Raleigh; W. A. Thomas, Statesville;
Henry Edwards, Shelby.
Term Expiring 1946 — Mrs. Mabel Claire Hoggard Maddrey, Ahoskie; Mrs. Margaret
Shields Everett, Greenville; Mrs. Beth Carroll Taylor, Charlotte; J. R. Hunter, Raleigh;
J. E. Broyhill, Lenoir; Eph Whisenhunt, Clayton.
Term Expiring 1947— W. H. Weatherspoon, Raleigh; V. M. Dorsett, Siler City; Mrs.
Maude Davis Bunn, Raleigh; L. A. Martin, Lexington; Harry B. Caldwell, Greensboro;
A. J. Smith, Goldsboro; James M. Hayes, Winston-Salem.
WAKE FOREST COLLEGE
Opened as Wake Forest Institute, February 3, 1834
Chartered as Wake Forest College, December 28, 1838
Bowman Gray Medical School of Wake Forest College
Officially opened July 1, 1941
The first Class of Students began work, September 10, 1941
Thurman D. Kitchin, President, Wake Forest
Board of Trustees
John A. Oates, President, Fayetteville
Term Expiring 1944 — Johnson J. Hayes, Wilkesboro; A. J. Hutchins, Canton; John A.
Oates, Fayetteville; Herbert Peele, Elizabeth City; H. A. Helms, Greensboro; R. P.
Holding, Smithfield; B. M. Watkins, Durham; T. C. Watkins, Winson-Salem; J. B. Willis,
Hamlet; W. L. Wyatt, Raleigh.
Term Expiring 1945 — Charles B. Deane, Rockingham; C. R. Hamrick, Shelby; W. J.
Conrad, Winston-Salem; Claude Gore, Rockingham; E. B. Josey, Wilmington; G. E.
Lineberry, Raleigh; W. Reid Martin, Raleigh; C. Ray Sharpe, Lexington; C. N. Peeler,
Charlotte.
Term Expiring 1946— J. E. Allen, Warrenton ; A. Y. Arledge, Raleigh; J. M. Brough-
ton, Raleigh; H. T. Hunter, Cullowhee; T. H. King, Wake Forest; W. H. Early, Windsor;
E. Y. Webb, Shelby; Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem; D. R. Perry, Durham.
Term Expiring 1947— J. B. Wyche. Hallsboro; C. H. Durham, Lumberton; D. E.
Buckner, Greensboro; G. A. Norwood, Goldsboro; J. Bivens Helms, 'Morganton; S. Wait
Brewer, Wake Forest; John Arch McMillan, Thomasville; Clarence H. Poe, Raleigh;
Percy B. Upchurch, Monroe; Germain Bernard, Durham.
VI. OFFICERS BAPTIST PASTORS' CONFERENCE
Officers for 1943
J. W. Kincheloe, Jr., President, North Wilkesboro
E. R. Stewart, Vice President, Windsor
Zeb A. Caudle, Secretary, Lenoir
VII. RIDGECREST
Chartered March 1907
Southern Baptist Convention Summer Assembly Grounds
Ridgecrest, North Carolina
GOVERNING BOARD
Executive Com-mittee Southern Baptist Convention
Austin Crouch, Executive Secretary, Nashville, Tenn.
Perry Morgan, Manager, Ridgecrest
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DIRECTORY OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
The Convention was organized May 8, 1845, and held its first meeting in Augusta, Ga.
The 1942 Convention was held in San Antonio, Texas.
The 1943 Convention was deferred by Executive Committee in view of war restrictions on
travel.
The next Convention will be held May 16-18, 1944, Atlanta, Georgia.
Officers of the Convention:
President: Pat M. Neff, Waco, Texas.
First Vice President: J. Dean Crain, Greenville, South Carolina.
Second Vice President: Robert Emmett Guy, Jackson, Tennessee.
Secretaries: Hight C. Moore, Nashville, Tenn.; Joseph Henry Burnett, Hendersonville,
North Carolina.
Boards of the Convention:
Foreign Mission Board, Richmond, Va., Charles E. Maddry, Executive Secretary.
North Carolina member: Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem.
Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Ga., J. B. Lawrence, Executive Secretary-Treasurer.
North Carolina member: R. K. Redwine, Mount Airy.
Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tenn. T. L. Holcomb, Executive Secretary. North
Carolina member: B. A. Bowers, Gastonia.
Relief and Annuity Board, Dallas, Texas, T. J. Watts, Executive Secretary. North
Carolina member: E. Norfleet Gardner, Henderson.
Institutions of the Convention:
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ellis A. Fuller, President, Louisville, Ky.
North Carolina members of Board of Trustees: J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro;
Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, E. D. Head, President, Seminary Hill,
Texas. North Carolina member of Board of Trustees: A. P. Stephens, Burlington.
Baptist Bible Institute, Duke K. McCall, President, New Orleans, La. North Carolina
member of Board of Trustees: Wilson W. Woodcock, Greensboro.
American Baptist Theological Seminary, E. P. Alredge, Chairman, Nashville, Tenn.
Southern Baptist Hospital, Louis J. Bristow, Secretary, New Orleans, La. North
Carolina director: S. H. Templeman, Winston-Salem.
Commissions of the Convention:
Education Commission — Chas. D. Johnson, Chairman, Waco, Texas. North Carolina
member : W. R. Cullom, Wake Forest.
Social Service Commission — J. B. Weatherspoon, Chairman, Louisville, Ky. North
Carolina member: I. G. Greer, Thomasville.
Standing Committees of the Convention :
Baptist Brotherhood of the South, Lawson H. Cooke, General Secretary, Memphis,
Tenn. North Carolina member: C. R. Browning, Jr., Bryson City.
Executive Committee, Austin Crouch. Executive Secretary, Nashville, Tenn. North
Carolina member: William Harrison Williams, Charlotte.
Order of Business next Session, R. Keely White, Chairman, Tenn. North Carolina
member: J. Winston Pearce, Durham.
Special Committees of the Convention to Report in 1943 :
(North Carolina Member.)
Baptist History: George W. Paschal, Wake Forest.
Baptist Papers: Eugene Olive, Wake Forest.
Baptist Papers Circulation Campaign: Carl M. Townsend, Raleigh.
Boards: J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro.
Calendar of Co-ordinated Denominational Activities: None.
Call to Prayer for a Just and Righteous Peace: J. Henry Burnett, Hendersonville.
Centennial Session Program: None.
Church Music and Worship: None.
Conference with State Department: None.
Evangelism: Zeno Wall, Shelby.
Luther Rice Memorial: Wm. Harrison Williams, Charlotte.
Negro Ministerial Education: None.
Post-War Program: J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro.
Public Relations: None.
Radio: W. Perry Crouch, Asheville.
Revision of Constitution and By-Laws: J. Ben Eller, Greensboro.
Statement of Principles, 1943: 0. T. Binkley, Wake Forest.
Officers of the Woman's Missionary Union:
Organized May 14, 1888, as auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention. Head-
quarters, Birmingham, Alabama. Miss Kathleen Mallory, Executive Secretary.
North Carolina Vice President, Mrs. J. S. Farmer, Raleigh.
BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE
Headquarters: 4 Southampton Row, London W. C. I., England
First Session, Loudon, July 10-17, 190S
Last Session, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1939
James Henry Rushbrooke, President, 4 Southampton Row, London W. C. I., England
W. O. Lewis, General Secretary, 4 Southampton Row, London W. C. I., England
Next meeting: Year and place of meeting to be determined.
V
CONSTITUTION
I. NAME AND OBJECT
Section 1. This body shall be known as the Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina.
The object of the Convention shall be to promote Missions, Education,
Social Service, the distribution and study of the Bible and sound religious
literature ; and to cooperate with the Southern Baptist Convention in its
work.
II. MEMBERSHIP
Section 1. The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina shall be
composed of not more than three representatives from each white asso-
ciation in the State and not more than one representative from each co-
operating church for every fifty members or fraction thereof and of the officers
and members of the General Board of the Convention and of the Life Members
so declared under the previous Constitution : Provided, that no church have
more than ten representatives and no one shall be a member of the Convention
who is not a member in good standing of a Missionary Baptist Church co-
operating with the Convention.
III. MEETINGS
Section 1. The Convention shall meet annually on Tuesday after the
third Sunday in November, except in those years when the meeting date will
fall in Thanksgiving week ; in which case the Convention shall meet annually
on Tuesday after the second Sunday in November.
IV. OFFICERS
Section 1. The officers of the Convention shall be a President, a First
Vice President, a Second Vice President, a Third Vice President, a Record-
ing Secretary, a General Secretary, a Treasurer (the General Secretary may
be elected as Treasurer at the discretion of the Convention), three Trustees
of the Convention, and five Directors of the North Carolina Baptist Founda-
tion. The President, Vice Presidents, Recording Secretary, General Secretary,
and Treasurer shall be elected as the Convention may determine, the Trustees
of the Convention and Directors of the Baptist Foundation in the manner pro-
vided by their respective charters. The terms of office of President and Vice
Presidents commence at the conclusion of the session at which they are elected
and continue until the close of the next Convention.
Sec. 2. The President shall preside over the deliberations of the Conven-
tion and discharge such other duties as are imposed upon him by the Con-
vention or as are incumbent on the presiding officer of a deliberative body.
*He shall in advance of the meeting of the Convention appoint a committee on
Enrollment consisting of nine members, and a Committee on Committees con-
sisting of fifteen members. He may appoint other committees zvhen so directed
by the body. In case of his absence or incapacity the Vice Presidents shall
act in his stead. In case of his death the Vice Presidents shall succeed to the
office in the order of their rank.
* Clarification by Convention. (See Section 34, page 39.)
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Sec. 3. The Recording Secretary shall record and preserve the proceedings
of the Convention and have the same printed and distributed.
Sec. 4. The General Secretary of the Convention shall have administrative
supervision of the work of Missions, Education, Benevolences, and all other
general training activities of the Convention. He shall work under the direc-
tion and be subject to the authority of the General Board.
Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall receive all funds sent to him for the objects
of the Convention, make acknowledgment of the same once a month in the
Biblical Recorder or the then recognized denominational organ, give a bond
to the Trustees of the Convention in such amount as they may determine for
the faithful performance of his duties and prescribe the terms and condi-
tions of said bond. The Treasurer shall sign all checks, which shall be
countersigned by the General Secretary, or in case the office of Secretary
and the office of Treasurer shall be filled by one man, then checks shall be
countersigned by the bonded bookkeeper, or any other bonded officer or em-
ployee at the discretion of the Board, which shall indicate its decision and
will by filing formal resolutions with the depository bank.
He shall also forward at least once a month all contributions to their
destination ; at every meeting of the Convention he shall make a full report
of his receipts and disbursements, and upon retiring from his office, deliver to
his successor all moneys, papers, books and other property belonging thereto.
Sec. 6. The Trustees shall take and hold the title to any and all property
acquired by and belonging to the Convention. They shall require a sufficient
bond from the Treasurer. In case he shall refuse or neglect to give satis-
factory bond within thirty days after his election the Trustees shall have
power to elect a successor. The said Trustees shall elect a chairman and
secretary and report annually to the Convention the work done by them. They
shall receive and make such conveyances of the properties of the Convention
as directed by the Convention. During the interim between sessions of the
Convention the said Trustees may receive and convey the property of the
Convention upon the advice and direction of the General Board.
*V. DUTIES OF COMMITTEES
Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Enrollment to provide
registration cards for messengers, and have them in a suitable place several
hours before the time set for the opening session of the Convention. This
committee shall make a report to the assembled messengers upon the call of
the President.
Sec. 2. The Committees of the Convention shall be grouped into two
categories:
(A) Those appointed to serve during the scssio>i of the Convention by
which they are appointed, and
(B) Those appointed to report at a subsequent meeting of the Convention;
and both (A) and (B) shall be named by the Committee on Committees.
Those in group (A) shall be designated as follows:
(1) Committee to Report on General Board's Report.
(2) Committee on Place and Preacher for the next Convention.
(3) Committee on Resolutions.
* New article added by Convention. (See section 34, page 39), thereby changing
Articles V through VII to Articles VI through VII.
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Those in group (B) shall be designated as follows:
(1) Committee on Order of Business for the subsequent Convention.
(2) Committee to Nominate Trustees of the Convention, Its Institutions
and Members of the General Board.
(3) Committee on Social Service and Civic Righteousness.
(4) The Historical Commission.
(5) Committee on Publicity.
Sec. 3. The Committee on Committees shall report to the Convention as
soon after the organisation of the Convention as may be practicable.
VI. GENERAL BOARD
Section 1. The General Board of the Convention shall consist of the
President and Recording Secretary of the Convention, ex officio, and forty-
eight members from the State at large. The Convention shall elect one-third
of the members from the State at large to hold office for one year, one-third
for two years, and one-third for three years, but as the terms expire the
successors shall serve .for terms of three years. That retiring members of
the Board be ineligible for reelection until the following meeting of the
State Convention. No one in the employment for pay of any Institution or
Board fostered by this Convention shall be eligible to membership on this
Board, except as an ex officio member. The General Board shall fill all
vacancies in its membership between the session of the Convention until the
session of the next Convention, when the vacancies shall be filled by the
Convention itself in the manner provided by its laws.
Sec. 2. The General Board shall have charge and control, except when
otherwise directed by the Convention, of all work of the Convention, including
Missions, Education, Benevolences, and all other general activities, in the
interim between the sessions of the Convention. Any action by the General
Board during the interim between the sessions of the Convention vitally related
to the work of the Convention shall be binding upon the Convention. Provided:
the Board shall not act upon any matter previously committed to some other
agency of the Convention ; and provided that the Board shall not launch any
new institution or enterprise until the Convention shall have considered and
approved such action; and that all actions of the Board during the interim of
the session shall be reported fully to the Convention at its next session.
Provided, further that the limitation of the powers of the General Board
herein provided shall not at any time be interpreted as prohibiting any
expansion in any phase of work already established which the Board may
consider expedient, and which its income and resources may make possible.
Sec. 3. The General Board or the Executive Committee shall employ a
certified public accountant each year to make a complete audit of the books
and accounts of the treasurer and bookkeeping department and report to the
General Board, which shall receive said report and bring it in printed form
to the Convention for the Convention's consideration and action, and after
action by the Convention shall have it published in the Minutes of the Con-
vention and in the Biblical Recorder, or the then recognized denominational
organ.
Sec. 4. The General Board shall report to each session of the Convention
upon the work done in each department, viz. : Missions, Education, Benevo-
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lences and all other general activities. The Board shall have its report printed
and ready for distribution at the first session of the Convention; all reports
from Educational Institutions, Hospitals, Orphanages, Baptist Foundation, and
all other institutions or agencies of the Convention shall report to the Conven-
tion through the General Board.
Sec. 5. The General Board of the Convention shall meet in regular session
in January and June of each year, and in cases of emergency at the call of the
President and General Secretary of the Board or any five members.
Sec. 6. At the annual January meeting of the General Board, there shall
be elected the following officers who shall serve for one year, and until their
successors are elected and qualified : President, Vice President and Recording
Secretary.
At the same time the Board shall elect all Departmental Heads and such
other assistants as may from time to time be deemed necessary, and shall fix
compensation of its Secretaries and other employees, and all salaried officers
of the Convention ; provided that at any other meeting of the General Board,
or at any meeting of the Executive Committee, such other departmental heads
or assistants may be elected as may be deemed necessary, and, in case of
election by the Committee, the Committee shall have power to fix compensations
up to the next meeting of the General Board.
Sec. 7. At the January meeting of the General Board the work of the
Convention shall be divided as follows : Missions, Education, Benevolences and
Training Activities. The membership of the General Board shall be divided
into four committees of twelve each and the work as above outlined shall be
assigned to these committees. Each committee shall organize itself by the
selection of a chairman and a recording secretary. All appropriations for the
work of the various departments of the General Board shall be made by the
General Board; but each committee shall make to the General Board definite
and specific recommendations as to all appropriations.
Sec. 8. The General Board shall elect an Executive Committee consisting
of the Chairman of the Board, ex officio, and six other members of the Board
at large, the members being chosen because of their recognized fitness and
ability to render the services to be expected of them, and with some reference
to their proximity to Raleigh, the headquarters of the Board ; and that the
President of the Convention shall be ex officio member of the Executive Com-
mittee. The Executive Committee shall meet at the call of the General Sec-
retary and shall have general direction and oversight of all the work of the
General Board in the interim between the sessions of the Board and such other
matters as shall be assigned to it by the General Board.
Sec. 9. The General Board shall be successor in law to all legal obliga-
tions heretofore incurred by the Board of Missions and by the Board of
Education.
Sec. 10. At each January meeting the General Board may select such
other departmental assistants as may be needed.
VII. TRUSTEES OF CONVENTION'S INSTITUTIONS
Section 1. The charters of all institutions owned and supported by the
Convention shall contain the following provisions as nearly as may be and
conformable to the number of trustees to be elected, that is to say:
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a. The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina shall elect the trustees
of said corporation and their regular term of office shall be four years. At
the first election by the Convention one-fourth of the board of trustees shall
be elected to serve for one year, one-fourth for two years, one-fourth for three
years and the remaining one-fourth for four years. At each subsequent regular
annual session of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina one-fourth
of the members of the Board of Trustees of said corporation shall be elected
by the Convention to succeed the members of said Board retiring.
b. The members of the Board of Trustees of said corporation shall be
residents of the State of North Carolina and members in good and regular
standing of a Missionary Baptist Church cooperating with the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina.
c. Removal from the State or ceasing for any reason to be a member in
good and regular standing of a Missionary Baptist Church cooperating with
the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina shall be equivalent to a
resignation from said Board of Trustees. Any vacancy on the Board shall be
filled by the remaining members until the next regular annual session of the
Convention and the Convention shall at its next regular annual session fill the
vacancy for the unexpired term.
d. The term of office of a trustee who has not resigned, died, become dis-
qualified, or been removed shall not expire until his successor shall have been
duly elected and qualified.
e. The Board of Trustees of said corporation by the affirmative vote of
three-fourths of its entire membership given in regular annual meeting or in
a special meeting duly called for the purpose, shall have power to remove from
office any trustee of such corporation for cause considered sufficient by such
Board, but only after reasonable notice to such trustee and opportunity to him
to be heard by the Board.
f. The Baptist State Convention shall have the right at any time to remove
from office any trustee for cause considered sufficient by the Convention, but
only after reasonable notice to such trustee and opportunity for him to be
heard by the Convention. Notice of such contemplated action and hearing by
the Convention may be given by the Executive Committee of the Convention.
g. That no individual shall serve on any Board, or Institution, who is at
the same time holding membership on any other Board or Institution.
Sec. 2. The Trustees of all institutions, benevolent, educational or other-
wise under the control of the Convention shall be elected by the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina and shall hold office for the term to which
elected, unless sooner terminated. When any vacancy shall occur in any Board
of any institution a nominating committee elected by the Convention shall
nominate to the Convention Baptists to fill such vacancy. The Trustees of all
institutions owned and supported by the Convention shall make annual report
to the nominating committee of any vacancies. Each Board shall have the right
to make any suggestion to the nominating committee it may see fit regarding
such nominations, and all nominations made by the committee shall be passed
upon by the Convention. The Convention shall have the right to adopt the
report of the nominating committee and elect the trustees thus nominated, or
to substitute the name of other trustee or trustees in lieu thereof, or recommit
said report for further consideration as the case may be.
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VIII. GENERAL ITEMS
Section 1. Individuals, churches, and associations, or others desiring the
assistance and cooperation of the Baptists of the State in any work not already
fostered by the Convention should present the question to the agency under
which it should be properly placed. If the agency should refuse to take it up,
it may be presented to the Convention under miscellaneous business or a
special order.
Sec. 2. The members of the Boards of the Convention and Institutions
affiliated with the Convention shall be distributed as widely as practicable,
both as to territory and individuals.
Sec. 3. The Convention year shall close December 31 of each year.
Sec. 4. No institution or agency affiliating with the Convention shall
encumber its property or change its status with respect to the Convention
without authority of the Convention or its General Board.
That except as may be necessary in the reasonable anticipation of current
revenues and payable out of the same, or for the purpose of funding or
refinancing any indebtedness of the Convention now outstanding, neither the
Convention nor its General Board shall have the power to create any debt or
obligation binding on the Convention ; and no other board, agency or institu-
tion of, or affiliated with the Convention, shall have the power at any time
to create any debt or obligation binding on the Convention.
Sec. 5. If for any reason, it shall be necessary to select a place or to
change the time or place of the meeting of the Convention after the Conven-
tion adjourns, the President, Recording Secretary and the General Secretary
of the Convention shall be a committee with power to make necessary change
or changes.
*Sec. 6. Any and all resolutions presented to the Convention shall be
referred to the Committee on Resolutions, except that by a tivo-thirds vote of
the messengers then present the rules may be suspended and a resolution placed
upon its immediate consideration.
Sec. 7. This constitution may be changed or amended on any day of any
annual session of the Convention by two-thirds vote of the members present
when the vote is taken, provided notice of the contemplated amendment or
change shall have been announced on a previous day of the convention.
*RULES FOR OPERATION OF THE GENERAL BOARD
I. THE PRESIDENT AND RECORDING SECRETARY
The President of the General Board, in addition to the regular duties
incumbent upon such officers, shall appoint special committees to investigate
and report upon any matters which concern equally all departments of the
work of the Convention. The Secretary shall record all proceedings in cor-
rect form and preserve the same.
II. QUORUM
Seventeen members shall be required to constitute a quorum of the Board.
Five shall be required to constitute a quorum of any department. Four shall
constitute a quorum of the Executive Committee of the General Board.
Clarification by Convention. (See Section 34, page 39.)
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III. THE WORK OF THE GENERAL BOARD
The work of the General Board shall be apportioned among its four
divisions, in so far as may be practicable, as indicated below. The General
Board, the Executive Committee of the General Board and the General Sec-
retary (48 members exclusive of the President and Secretary of the Con-
vention, who are ex officio members) :
1. ^Committee on Missions — (12) — Division of (1) Field Work; (2)
Evangelism; (3) Negro Work.
2. ^Committee on Training Activities — (12) — Division of (1) Sunday
schools — Secretary; (2) B.Y.P.U. — Secretary; (3) Student Activities.
3. ^Committee on Benevolences — (12) — Division of (1) Orphanage; (2)
Hospital; (3) Ministers' Relief.
4. ^Committee on Education — (12) — Division of (1) Educational Institu-
tion ; (2) Ministerial Education.
5. Department of Woman's Missionary Union.
The Executive Committee shall have power in its discretion, to modify,
enlarge, diminish, or otherwise alter the divisions of the work of the Board
as it may from time to time deem advisable or necessary, the changes so made
to be reported to the next regular meeting of the General Board for its
consideration.
IV. UNDESIGNATED GIFTS
The General Board at its annual meeting shall determine the percentage
of undesignated gifts that each object of the Convention shall receive, includ-
ing State and South-wide, provided always that any allocation of such funds
shall not violate any order with respect to the same previously made by the
Baptist State Convention.
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The Executive Committee shall have power to borrow money and execute
notes on behalf of the General Board for the purpose of meeting the obligations
of said Board, and to do and perform any act incidental or necessary in the
execution and discharge of the work of the General Board : Provided, the
Executive Committee shall not incur obligations for any object in excess of
the budget fixed by the General Board. Notes may be executed in the name
of the General Board and on its behalf by the Chairman of the Executive
Committee attested by the General Secretary, and when so executed by author-
ity of the Executive Committee duly given, shall be the binding obligation of
the General Board.
The Executive Committee of the General Board shall meet upon the call
of the General Secretary, or any four members. If practicable, at least one
meeting shall be held each month.
VI. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
His duties, together with all other Departmental Heads, or Assistants, shall
be determined from time to time by the General Board.
Clarification by Convention. (See Section 34, page 39.)
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VII. EXECUTIVE SESSION
The General Board may by a majority vote of the number present, go into
executive session at any time for the purpose of considering such matters as
may claim the consideration of said Board.
VIII. AMENDMENTS
These by-laws may be amended at any regular meeting by a majority vote
of the members attending said meeting.
IX. PUBLICATION
These by-laws, together with any amendments that may be made thereon,
from time to time, shall be printed in the Minutes of the Baptist State
Convention.
PROCEEDINGS
PROCEEDINGS
TUESDAY MORNING, November 16, 1943
1. With Horace Easom, Shelby, Director of Music for the Sessions, leading,
assisted by Miss Mary Humphrey, Fayetteville, Convention pianist, a service
in praise opened the One Hundredth Thirteenth Annual Session of the Baptist
State Convention of North Carolina, meeting with the First Baptist Church,
Winston-Salem, November 16-18, 1943.
2. After the singing of "Trust and Obey," "When I Survey the Wondrous
Cross," and prayer by J. B. Grice, Asheville ; I. G. Greer, Thomasville, Presi-
dent, called the Convention to the transaction of business at 10:00 o'clock A.M.
3. The President announced the appointment of the Committee on Enroll-
ment, composed of Marshall L. Mott, Chairman, Mrs. J. M. Kesler, Avery
Church, John R. Link, Charles H. Stevens, Miss Pauline Perry, and Mrs. G.
G. Lanter. Chairman Mott announced at this time that 453 Messengers were
registered and his motion carried recognizing these Messengers and all others
who may register during the Sessions as the duly constituted organization for
the transaction of all Convention matters.
4. Upon the perfection of the Convention organization, and following a
prayer by O. R. Mangum, Lenoir, the following Convention Officers were
re-elected to serve for their twelfth consecutive year :
General Secretary and Treasurer M. A. Huggins, Raleigh, N. C.
Recording Secretary C. B. Deane, Rockingham, N. C.
Statistical Secretary L. L. Morgan, Raleigh, N. C.
5. President Greer released through the Recording Secretary the Commit-
tee on Committees : Talmage C. Johnson, Chairman, J. L. Jenkins, E. H. Potts,
Mrs. Homer Andrews, C. N. Royal, J. Ben Eller, L. L. Hatfield, W. S. John-
son, Mrs. L. S. Gaines, P. A. Hicks, Trela Collins, W. K. McGee, J. C.
Canipe, W. A. Stephenson, E. S. Summers, Mrs. B. A. Hocutt, C. L. Gillespie.
6. The Committee on Orders of Business, consisting of W. Perry Crouch,
Chairman, J. Winston Pearce, Olin T. Blinkley, J. Glenn Blackburn, Donald
G. Myers, A. D. Kinnett, J. B. Willis, S. L. Morgan, Jr., and R. E. Wall,
presented the Order of Business for the sessions, and upon the motion of
Chairman Crouch, the Order was approved as follows :
ORDER OF BUSINESS
General Theme: Christianity and the Nezv World Order
Tuesday Morning, November 16
10:00 — Praise and Prayer
10:10 — Enrollment and Organization
Report of Committee on Order of Business
Appointment of Committees
10 :35 — Presentation of Winston-Salem Pastors, New Pastors and Visitors
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10:50 — Scripture Reading and Prayer J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro
11:00 — Presentation of Reports
11:50 — Music and Miscellaneous
12 :00 — Convention Sermon Oscar Creech, Ahoskie
Alternate E. F. Sullivan, Hickory
Tuesday Afternoon I
2 :30 — Praise and Prayer
2 :40 — Biblical Recorder L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh
3 :05 — Scripture Reading and Prayer Bruce Benton, Rockingham
3:10 — Woman's Missionary Union
3 :45 — Music
3 :50 — Report of Committee on Social Service and Civic Righteousness
4:10 — Message — The Christian Message and the New World Order
J. B. Weatherspoon, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,
Louisville, Kentucky
Tuesday Evening
7 :30 — Praise and Prayer
7:40 — Sunday School Board B. A. Bowers, Gastonia, Presiding
Report
Message Hight C. Moore, Nashville, Tennessee
8 :05 — Scripture Reading and Prayer C. H. Durham, Salisbury
8 :15 — Relief and Annuity Board E. N. Gardner, Henderson, Presiding
8 :40 — Foreign Missions Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem, Presiding
Report
Greetings from Missionaries
Message — Christianity Permeating the New World Order
George W. Sadler, Richmond, Virginia
Wednesday Morning, November 17
9 :00 — Praise and Prayer
9:10 — Report of Committees
9:20 — State Missions
10:00 — Scripture Reading and Prayer J. W. Kincheloe, Sr., Rocky Mount
10 :10 — Home Missions R. K. Redwine, Mount Airy, Presiding
Report
Address Alfred E. Carpenter, Atlanta, Georgia
10 :50— Music
11:00 — Baptist Foundation
U :25 — Seminaries E. D. Head, President, Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas
11 :55 — Music
12:00 — Message — Christian Youth and the New World Order
J. W. Marshall, Richmond, Virginia
Wednesday Afternoon
2 :30 — Praise and Prayer
2 :45 — Baptist Historical Commission
Report of Trustees of the Convention
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3 :00 — Scripture Reading and Prayer C. W. Durden, Charlotte
3 :05 — Orphanage
3 :30— Hospital
4:00 — Adjourn — Visit to the Hospital and Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Wednesday Evening
7 :30 — Praise and Prayer
7:40 — Reports from the Colleges
8 :00 — Report on Wake Forest Chapel
8:10 — Report of Education Commission
8 :20 — Scripture Reading and Prayer A. B. Conrad, High Point
8 :25 — Christian Education in the Churches
Sunday School L. L. Morgan, Raleigh
Training Union W. Wilbur Hutchins, Raleigh
Student Union R. T. Howerton, Jr., Raleigh
8:55 — Special Music
9:00 — Message — Christian Education in North Carolina. . .Zeno Wall, Shelby
Thursday Morning, November 18
9 :00 — Praise and Prayer
9:10 — Reading of Journal
9 :20 — Report of Committees
Publicity
Place and Preacher
To Report on General Board's Report
To Nominate Trustees
Radio
Music
9 : 50— Election of Officers
10 :20 — American Bible Society
10 :35 — Miscellaneous
10:50 — Special Music
11 :00 — Message — Spiritual Foundations for the New World Order
Broadus E. Jones, Raleigh
Committee :
W. Perry Crouch, Chairman S. L. Morgan, Jr.
Olin T. Binkley J. Winston Pearce
J. Glenn Blackburn R. E. Wall
A. D. Kinnett J. B. Willis
Donald G. Myers
7. Host Pastor Ralph A. Herring was recognized and he welcomed the
Convention Messengers on behalf of his Church, and the other Baptist Churches
of Winston-Salem. He was followed by Tom S. Lawrence, Winston-Salem,
full-time associational missionary in the Pilot Mountain Association, who pre-
sented the following Baptist Pastors of Winston-Salem and environs : Malvin
Swicegood of Clemmons ; James E. Swinson of Hanes ; Burley S. Turner of
Forest Hill ; Avery M. Church of Waughtown ; Marshall L. Mott of Ardmore ;
R. E. Adams of Mineral Springs ; James M. Hayes of North Winston ; T. C.
Keaton of Temple ; and L. C. Hall of Mayodan.
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8. General Secretary Huggins was recognized, who took charge of the
service welcoming the following new pastors into the Convention and the Bap-
tist Ministry of North Carolina:
R. Lane Akins, Hayes ville ; C. B. Atkinson, Erlanger ; Das Kelley
Barnett, Chapel Hill ; R. Knolan Benfield, Hickory ; D. Palmer Brooks,
Elizabeth City; Charles P. Burchette, Jr., Gastonia; Edward C. Cham-
blee, Farmville ; H. E. Cherry, Raleigh ; James H. Christie, Waynesville.
L. S. Clark, Mount Holly; Edward G. Cole, Winterville; Paul E.
Crandall, Charlotte, J. W. Cummins, Oxford; J. T. Davis, Concord;
Alfred F. Gibson, Siler City ; L. C. Hall, Mayodan ; George D. Heaton,
Charlotte ; C. H. Hornsby, Clinton.
J. Samuel Johnson, Durham ; Bruce B. Littleton, Lincolnton ; Hugh
T. McElrath, Statesville ; C. W. Mainwaring, Hendersonville ; James F.
Marchman, Franklin ; F. Orion Mixon, Raleigh ; C. B. Peacock, Cas-
talia; O. M. Seigler, Hendersonville; David K. Shelton, Jacksonville;
B. S. Turner, Winston-Salem; James B. Turner, Laurinburg ; J. B.
Couch, Valdese.
9. President Greer noted the presence of C. H. Durham, J. Clyde Turner,
Zeno Wall, R. N. Simms, and Wm. Harrison Williams, former presidents of
the Convention, and then welcomed the large group of visitors (see page 65)
in attendance. He next called attention to the presence of J. B. Grice, Leslie
H. Campbell, and J. W. Suttle, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Vice Presidents of the Con-
vention. Because of outstanding work as Royal Ambassadors the following
pages for the Convention were selected by the State Woman's Missionary
Union and they were at this time presented by President Greer, namely : Frank
Tatum, Cooleemee; Pat Murphy, Wallace; Nolan Teague, Lexington; Mor-
ton Miles, Jr., Henderson, and Leonard Crotts, Clemmons ; who served the
Convention Officers throughout the Convention.
10. Special Messages were dispatched through the mails to the following
by order of the Convention:
Mrs. W. N. Jones, Raleigh ; Rev. Nane Starnes, Mission Hospital, Ashe-
ville ; Chaplain Ottis Hagler, Mission Hospital, Asheville ; Rev. Wayne Wil-
liams, Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa ; Dr. Casper Warren, Little Rock,
Ark.; Rev. N. C. Brooks, Jr., Waynesboro, Georgia; Rev. Douglas M. Braunch,
Shepherdsville, Ky. ; Dr. W. R. Cullom, Wake Forest; Rev. Reid R. Harris,
Cumberland County Sanitorium, Fayetteville ; Mr. Perry Morgan, Ridgecrest ;
Dr. Forrest C. Feezer, Fort Worth, Texas ; Dr. John W. Inzer, Sylacauga,
Ala; Dr. B. W. Spilman, Kinston.
Greetings were also forwarded to the following Baptist State Conventions
now in Annual Meeting :
The Mississippi Baptist State Convention, Jackson, Mississippi State Con-
vention of the Baptist Denomination in South Carolina, Columbia, South
Carolina; The Alabama State Convention, Montgomery, Alabama; The Baptist
Convention of New Mexico, Portales, New Mexico; The Baptist General Con-
vention of the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ; The Arkansas
Baptist State Convention, Little Rock, Arkansas.
11. Messages were received from: Rev. Nathan C. Brooks, Jr., Waynes-
boro, Georgia; Dr. B. W. Spilman, Kinston; North Carolina Group at Train-
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ing School and Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky; Mr. Perry Morgan, Ridge-
crest; Dr. Forrest C. Feezor, Fort Worth, Texas.
12. At this and similar periods during the sessions special emphasis was
placed upon the reading of the scripture and in prayer. J. Clyde Turner,
Greensboro, led in this opening period.
13. The special order claiming the attention next was the consideration of
the Advance Report of the General Board (see section 71, page 69), with J.
Winston Pearce, Durham, President of the General Board presiding. He
recognized General Secretary Huggins who called attention to the main fea-
tures of the Report which revealed outstanding gains in all departments over
the previous year. The financial gains indicated that if the present trends
continue upward the total receipts should be 30% over that of last year. And
last year the gain was 30% over the preceding year, and in 1941 the gain was
some 20% above 1940. Last year the income of the Convention was $1,100,000.00.
This year it should reach $1,400,000.00. The report was happily received as
a matter of information and referred to the Committee to report on the General
Board's report.
14. The Committee on Committees through the Chairman, Talmage C.
Johnson, Kinston, released the following Committees, and upon his motion
they were approved.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Committee to Report on the Report of the General Board:
John T. Wayland, Durham, Chairman; Oscar Creech, Ahoskie ; J. Ned
Taylor, Bessemer City; Irby Jackson, High Point; D. M. Edmisten, New-
land; Miss Myrtle Zentmeyer, Salisbury; E. L. Bradley, Wilmington; Mrs.
T. L. Caudill, Raleigh, RFD ; W. P. Biggerstaff, Shelby; J. Louis Price,
Hickory; H. G. Hammett, Waynesville.
Committee on Place and Preacher:
Oscar R. Mangum, Lenoir, Chairman; John H. Bunn, Morehead City; Z.
W. Rotan, Concord; B. G. Henry, Tryon; Boyd Cannon, Shelby; J. S.
Hopkins, High Point ; C. H. Norris, Wake Forest ; Mrs. Wm. Harrison
Williams, Charlotte ; Carey P. Herring, Fairmont ; Mrs. Neal Davis,
Winston-Salem.
Committee on Resolutions:
Louis S. Gaines, Lexington, Chairman; R. E. Wall, Elizabeth City; E. V.
Hudson, Cramerton; Howard Ford, Wilkesboro ; C. A. Rhyne, Salisbury;
Wilson Woodcock, Greensboro ; W. H. Weatherspoon, Raleigh ; J. B.
Grice, Asheville ; S. N. Lamb, Whiteville.
Committee on Publicity:
L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh, Chairman; R. E. Price, Rutherfordton, J. A.
McMillan, Thomasville; C. B. Deane, Rockingham; C. R. Austin, Char-
lotte; Santford Martin, Winston-Salem.
Committee on Order of Business 1944:
B. E. Morris, Durham, Chairman; W. F. West, Roxboro ; C. E. Baucom,
Wilson ; A. C. Reid, Wake Forest ; A. P. Stephens, Burlington ; Eph
Whisenhunt, Claytnn ; A. B. Wood, Charlotte; Mrs. Carl M. Townsend,
Raleigh ; Miss Wynona Chaney, Durham.
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Committee on Music:
Horace B. Easom, Shelby, Chairman; A. E. Lynch, Buie's Creek; L. C.
Pinnix, Jacksonville ; C. S. Hodge, Greensboro ; Mrs. Alice Berman, Char-
lotte.
Committee to Nominate Trustees of the Convention, Its Institutions and Mem-
bers of the General Board:
M. L. Banister, Oxford, Chairman; E. H. Potts, Elizabeth City; Sankey
L. Blanton, Wilmington ; L. Grady Burgiss, Greensboro ; E. S. Elliott,
Cherryville ; Wade E. Brown, Boone ; Mrs. C. R. Hinton, Albemarle ; E.
F. Hardin, Morganton; Mrs. Earl James, Elkin; Harry Y. Gamble, States-
ville ; Mrs. R. Bruce Wilkins, Durham ; R. P. Hamby, Swannanoa ; Percy
B. Upchurch, Monroe ; W. T. Baucom, Spruce Pine ; Tom M. Freeman,
Rt. 1, Selma.
Social Service and Civic Righteousness:
A. D. Kinnett, Burlington, Chairman; J. Glenn Blackburn, Lumberton ;
Marshall L. Mott, Winston- Salem ; E. F. Sullivan, Hickory; B. A. Bowers,
Gastonia ; E. Y. Webb, Shelby ; Broadus E. Jones, Raleigh ; Charles B.
Howard, Buie's Creek; J. Roy Clifford, Wilmington; Mrs. J. S. Farmer,
Raleigh; John W. Holmes, Farmville; Mrs. Nettie Hoge, Greensboro;
Mrs. R. L. Councilman, Windsor; Smoot Baker, Spencer; Mrs. W. C.
Reed, Kinston.
Historical Commission:
G. W. Paschal, Wake Forest, Chairman; J. W. Whitley, Albemarle; Mrs.
E. T. Crittenden, Wake Forest ; Thad F. Deitz, Sylva ; L. R. Pruitt, Char-
lotte; B. W. Spilman, Kinston; L. E. M. Freeman, Raleigh; Miss Flossie
Martin, Winston-Salem ; Willis G. Briggs, Raleigh.
Non-resident Church Members:
A. Paul Bagby, Louisburg, Chairman; E. F. Sullivan, Hickory; Miss
Thelma Patrick, High Point ; Miss Ua L. Hensley, Lexington.
Committee of Seven — Purchase Home For General Secretary:
W. H. Weatherspoon, Raleigh, Chairman; J. M. Broughton, Raleigh ; Mrs.
B. A. Hocutt, Clayton; J. Winston Pearce, Durham; Louis S. Gaines, Lex-
ington; Mrs. J. Wilbur Bunn, Raleigh; A. D. Kinnett, Burlington.
Committee on Constitutional Changes:
Wm. Harrison Williams, Charlotte, Chairman; R. N. Simms, Sr., Raleigh ;
J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro; C. B. Deane, Rockingham; E. S. Summers,
Concord ; LeRoy Martin, Raleigh ; L. R. Varser, Lumberton.
SUGGESTED LIST OF NOMINEES REPRESENTING NORTH CAROLINA
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION FOR MEMBERSHIP ON BOARD
OF TRUSTEES FOR ALLIED CHURCH LEAGUE
R. E. Price, Rutherfordton ; T. P. Pruitt, Hickory; E. B. Goodin, Lincoln-
ton; L. L. Hatfield, Hickory; T. H. Barker, Leaksville; R. C. Foster; Leaks-
ville; Grover H. Jones, High Point; L. E. Andrews, Lexington; J. H. Early,
Winston- Salem; J. G. Pritchard, Windsor; V. M. Dorsett, Siler City; T. E.
Story, North Wilkesboro ; Johnson J. Hayes, Wilkesboro.
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LeRoy Martin, Raleigh; R. S. Averett, Winston- Salem ; Carey B. Taylor,
Winston-Salem ; Santford Martin, Winston-Salem ; E. Yates Webb, Shelby ;
E. C. Roach, Kannapolis ; F. H. Brooks, Smithfield; C. M. Beach, Leaksville ;
A. Lincoln Fulk, Washington ; B. A. Bowers, Gastonia ; M. Leslie Davis,
Beaufort; Sankey L. Blanton, Wilmington; Harry B. Caldwell, Greensboro;
C. H. Durham, Salisbury.
John A. Oates, Fayetteville, Clarence Poe, Raleigh; I. G. Greer, Thomas-
ville ; J. A. McMillan, Thomasville ; L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh; M. A. Huggins,
Raleigh; Bruce H. Price, Asheboro ; B. M. Covington, Wadesboro ; A. Paul
Bagby, Louisburg ; C. B. Deane, Rockingham, E. N. Johnson, Fair Bluff, M.
L. Banister, Oxford.
Walt N. Johnson, Salisbury ; E. F. Sullivan, Hickory ; James M. Hayes,
Winston-Salem; J. Y. Joyner, La Grange; Don C. Young, Asheville ; W. H.
Weatherspoon, Raleigh ; J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro ; M. M. Jernigan, Dunn ;
H. B. Anderson, Durham; Theo B. Davis, Zebulon ; L. R. Varser, Lumberton ;
E. N. Gardner, Henderson ; Mrs. T. H. Plemmons, Charlotte ; Mrs. W. E.
Goode, Scotland Neck; Miss Alma Moose, Charlotte; Mrs. T. L. Cashwell,
Gastonia.
15. Marshall L. Mott, Chairman announced for the Committee on Enroll-
ment that 694 messengers and visitors had registered.
16. After the singing of "Jesus Paid it All" and "O Master Let Me Walk
with Thee," the Convention Sermon was preached by Oscar Creech, Ahoskie,
upon the theme, "Hear Him," based upon scripture passages in the 9th Chap-
ter of Luke read by E. F. Sullivan, Hickory.
17. The session adjourned following prayer by J. W. Kincheloe, Rocky
Mount.
TUESDAY— Afternoon Session
18. A service of praise with the hymns "Sing Them Over Again to Me"
and "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour" and a prayer by Luther Little, Char-
lotte, opened the Tuesday afternoon session.
19. The Directors of Biblical Recorder, Incorporated, submitted the re-
port that follows, which was read by Perry Crouch, Fayetteville, and following
a discussion by Editor L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh, he moved and the report was
adopted.
REPORT OF DIRECTORS OF BIBLICAL RECORDER,
INCORPORATED
The Directors of Biblical Recorder, Incorporated, in compliance with
the requirements of their Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws, sub-
mit herewith to the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina their
report for the year ended September 30, 1943.
The directors met in the editor's office, Biblical Recorder Building,
Raleigh, on January 19, 1943. At this time organization was perfected
as follows : Eugene Olive, Wake Forest, chairman ; Perry Crouch, Fay-
etteville, vice-chairman ; Lee C. Sheppard, Raleigh, secretary ; members
of the executive committee, Eugene Olive, Perry Crouch, Lee C. Shep-
pard, L. R. Harrill, and John Wayland. L. L. Carpenter, editor and
business manager, discussed with the directors some of his plans for
the paper. Upon his recommendation, it was decided to make a sub-
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scription rate of $1.20 a year, or ten cents a month, to churches agreeing
to send the paper to every resident family.
The executive committee met on May 5, 1943. Among matters
claiming their attention was the employment of an additional worker in
the business office, made necessary by the growing circulation, and the
adoption of a motion requesting the General Board to provide one more
room for office space. We are glad to report that this request has been
granted, making working conditions much more satisfactory.
A second meeting of the directors was held on October 19 for the
purpose of reviewing reports for the year ended September 30, preparing
a report to the Convention, and transacting other items of business.
The directors are pleased to report a gradual and substantial growth
in the Biblical Recorder's circulation, as indicated in the month by month
record appearing below :
September 30, 1942 .... 11,264 April 30. 1943 16,141
October 31, 1942 11,878 May 31, 1943 17,018
November 30. 1942 .... 12,437 June 30, 1943 17,460
December 31, 1942 .... 12,974 July 31, 1943 17,830
January 31, 1943 13,058 August 31, 1943 18,315
February 28, 1943 13,849 September 30, 1943 .... 18,447
March 31, 1943 14,842 October 31, 1943 19,135
Of the number of subscriptions on October 31, 1943, approximately
1,208 are at the individual rate of $2.00; 14,801 are at the club rate of
$1.50; 2.925 are at the budget rate of $1.20.
The balance of the total circulation represents exchanges, compli-
mentary subscriptions, copies sent to advertisers, etc.
A. T. Allen & Company, certified public accountants, have made a
complete audit of the books and records of the Biblical Recorder, In-
corporated, covering the period of this report, and have found them to
be in excellent condition. From the full report of the auditors, we pre-
sent herewith a statement of cash receipts and disbursements :
STATE OF CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
12 Months Ended September 30. 1943
Receipts :
Advertising $ 3,126.34
Circulation 26,391.12
Sale of Cuts 177.98
Withholding Tax Deducted From
Employees' Pay 258.30
Miscellaneous 63.25
Baptist State Convention 7,200.00
Total Receipts $37,216.99
Bank Balance September 30, 1942 130.46
Total Receipts and Bank Balance $37,347.45
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Disbursements :
To Increase Petty Cash $ 25.00
To Increase Postage Deposit 25.00
Advertising 348.60
Insurance 56.44
Miscellaneous 851.07
News Correspondents 66.00
Office Expense 300.47
Postage 2,051.99
Printing Contract 14,566.22
Print Paper Purchased 6,739.15
Rent ' 540.00
Retirement Annuity 294.40
Salaries 10,343.77
Stationery 178,31
Telephone 109.87
Travel 491.25
Furniture and Fixtures Purchased 77.25
Drayage and Packing Paper 144.11
Total Disbursements $37,208.90
Bank Balance September 30, 1943 $ 138.55
In our report to the Convention one year ago, we expressed the belief
that we would not need to call upon the Convention for an appropriation
in excess of $10,000 to help finance the paper. The records indicate that
we have received from the Convention during the past year $7,200.00,
which amounts to an investment of about one cent per copy. We are
hopeful that a continued growth in circulation will make it unnecessary
for us to call upon the Convention for an amount this large next year,
but we are aware of the fact that cost of paper and publication is likely
to increase.
We desire to remind the Convention that this appropriation for the
support of the Convention's journal does not indicate that the Biblical
Recorder is a financial liability. Some of its pages are filled each week
with material supplied by agencies of the Convention, and most of what
is found on other pages seeks to promote the Convention's program and
achieve its objectives. We believe, therefore, that the Convention's in-
vestment in the Biblical Recorder is a profitable one for the Convention ;
that the Biblical Recorder ought always to be a servant of the Conven-
tion in advancing the kingdom of God, rather than a paper whose pri-
mary concern is to be financially successful ; and that such advertising
as the paper carries should not be in conflict with the Convention's ob-
jectives and the best interests of the kingdom of God.
The directors wish to express their appreciation of the fact that
Editor Carpenter has traveled widely throughout the State creating good
will for the Biblical Recorder and helping to extend its circulation. They
desire also to record their indebtedness to Secretary M. A. Higgins and
the staff of Convention workers for their valuable assistance in this
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regard. They are grateful to numerous pastors and other workers for
their cooperation in extending the usefulness of the paper to the people
by helping to increase its circulation, by their contributions to its col-
umns, and by their generous words about its value.
We call upon the churches to consider the wisdom of adopting the
every- family plan as the most practical way of reaching their total mem-
bership with the Recorder. By this method the church pays ten cents a
month, or $1.20 a year, from its treasury to send the paper to each
resident family in its membership. If this is done by a considerably
larger number of the churches, it would be an easy matter to double the
present circulation.
Respectfully submitted,
Eugene Olive, Chairman
Lee C. Sheppard, Secretary
20. The special scripture reading and prayer for this session was led by
Bruce Benton, Rockingham.
21. Mrs. J. S. Farmer, Raleigh, President of the Woman's Missionary
Union, read the report appearing below, and after her motion she introduced
several members of the Department of Woman's Missionary Union, and there-
after presented J. S. Bishop, Birmingham, Ala., who brought a special message
in support of the Woman's work, after which the report was adopted.
REPORT OF WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
The 1943 watchword of Woman's Missionary Union sets forth the
high aim of our Missionary endeavor : "That all the kingdoms of the
Earth may know that Thou art the Lord, even Thou only" (Isa. 37:20b).
It is a privilege to bring to you a report of at least some of the efforts
that your Auxiliary, The Woman's Missionary Union of North Caro-
lina, has made since we last met to help bring the watchword to reality.
In March, 1943, at our annual meeting in the Tabernacle Church in
Raleigh gratifying reports of the work of 1942 were heard from all
our officers and departmental chairmen. We listened with joy to Miss
Alford, our Treasurer, as she gave a grand total of $387,728.60. This
is an all-time record, exceeding the gifts of even the Ruby Anniversary
by $42,528.61. And with thankful hearts we learn that for the first
three quarters of 1943 the gifts amount to $304,465.49.
The Heck Memorial gifts in 1942 amounted to $8,311.65, appropriated
to work in Free China, to the Department of Religious Education at
Shaw, to Royal Ambassador work in North Carolina, to the Indian
Orphanage, and to the Y. W. A's of our colleges, to help stimulate
Missionary interest. This is indeed our "magical offering" as Miss
Mallory described it. Gifts to the 100,000 Club totalled $50,027.13, from
January through September of 1943 ; $45,779.43 has been brought to
help clear our debts. We pledge to keep loyal interest until every dol-
lar of our Southwide and State debts are paid. The policy of the
Woman's Missionary Union is never to make debts.
We have especially emphasized State Missions, with the result that
in two years our special offering to this cause has doubled.
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This wonderful increase in giving has not come about by wishful
thinking, but is the result, we feel, of constant striving toward attaining
of five chief aims — prayer, study, community missions, stewardship, and
the missionary education of the young people. To each officer, and to
each chairman, we wish to express deep gratitude for her joyous, un-
tiring service.
There have been changes in our personnel. With deep regret was
accepted the resignation of Mrs. T. M. Pittman, Margaret Fund Chair-
man ; Miss Myrtle Zentmeyer, Field Worker ; Mrs. W. D. Briggs, for
six years our faithful, beloved, Executive Secretary. Cherrie Pearce
joined the Waves and Mrs. Edna Buffaloe is office secretary. Mrs.
L. R. Harrill is now Margaret Fund Chairman, Miss Kathryn Abee
took up the duties of Field Worker in February 1943, only to be chosen
as Young People's Secretary in July, when Miss Mary Currin was
elected Executive Secretary. All these are proving worthy of the high
trust committed to them.
In June 1943, more than 1400 young people of our State gathered in
the Meredith and Ridgecrest G. A. House Parties and R. A. Camps
for three days of intensive study and training. Many made their first
profession of faith in these meetings ; many dedicated their lives to
missionary work.
The coming of Mr. David Byrd, of Mississippi, to our State for
R. A. field work for the three summer months brought about a marked
advance in our Royal Ambassador work. Will you not help us women
in our efforts to enlist and train the boys and young men in the King's
Business ?
Three interracial institutes were held, one in Elizabeth City, one at
Shaw University, one in Shelby. These meetings were all well attended
by both white and colored leaders, and we feel that much good was
accomplished. The President of the State W. M. U. had the privilege
of speaking at the colored W. M. U. in Wilson in August, and at that
time presented the second $1,000.00 our Union has given to the Depart-
ment of Religious Education at Shaw University.
Distinguished visitors who have brought vision and courage to us
since last November are: Miss Ethel Harmon, Miss Mary Christian,
Mrs. F. W. Armstrong, Dr. Everett Gill, Jr., Miss Gladys Keith, Miss
Eunice Jackson, Mrs. J. Hundley Wiley, Mrs. H. H. McMillan, Miss
Alda Grayson, Miss Clifford Barratt, Miss Bonnie Jean Ray, Dr. and
Mrs. D. F. Stamps, Mrs. J. A. Tumblin, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Olive.
We bespeak your prayerful and sympathetic cooperation as we labor
together to make Christ pre-eminent even to the uttermost part of this
sin-darkened world.
Mrs. J. S. Farmer.
Song: "Amazing Grace."
22. Chairman E. N. Gardner, Henderson, read the following report for
the Committee on Social Service and Civic Righteousness.
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SERVICE AND CIVIC
RIGHTEOUSNESS
Proving ourselves Giristian is always the supreme test of our faith.
Every generation is compelled to declare its belief with regard to the
issues of its day ; and, consequently, for every generation there is the
imperative to find the teaching of Christ in its relationship to the various
problems of the individual and society. Surely the issues of this time
are fraught with such importance for humanity that no studious Chris-
tian dare fail to seek the interpretation it would expect the Great
Teacher to place upon requirements for discipleship. It is in the
spirit of earnest seekers after truth that your committee on social service
and civic righteousness has approached the problems it presents to the
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina in its 1943 session at
Winston-Salem.
I. Global War
We live in the midst of interlocking issues, almost all of which today
are bound up with questions that arise out of the present global strife.
That we are at war is to be deplored, whatever may be the argument to
justify the righteous nature of the struggle, for war is opposed to the
philosophy of love that is central in the teachings of Jesus.
Our country is, nevertheless, at war. The historic attitude of Bap-
tists in every national crisis of this sort has been one of patriotism.
They have fought for freedom, have planned for national development
in time of peace, and have always proved loyal citizens. In this war
they are exemplifying those virtues of courage and sacrifice on the
battlefield, in military posts and in civilian life that demonstrate the
finest qualities of Christian citizenship.
However, let not the church ask for the blessing of God upon war.
As a denomination we single out no group against whom we are to
take up arms. No local church decries any nation, or exhorts its mem-
bers to pray for the extermination of any people. As Christians, we
insist that even in war time hatred of others must be avoided, even
when we are moved with righteous indignation against their evil deeds.
God loves all mankind ; and as children of the Heavenly Father it be-
hooves us to pray for them which despitefully use us.
II. Present Humanitarian Calls
There are certain calls for humanitarian service to which we make
definite response. Our people in North Carolina continue cheerfully
their gifts for the relief of the stricken people of the world. The money
sent for world emergency within recent months will save the lives of
millions of hungry, emaciated and diseased men, women and children.
We must continue this ministry not only as long as the war lasts, but
in generous fashion when the actual fighting comes to a close — a min-
istry not only for allies, but for the Axis people as well, remembering
the words of the Lord Jesus, "If thine enemy hunger, feed him."
A great missionary opportunity is afforded Christian people at pres-
ent in bringing to this country thousands of Axis prisoners. By supply-
ing them with literature and Bibles in their own tongue, by personal
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contacts through chaplains in the area in which they are located, by
simply, Christlike courtesies we may prove ambassadors of the Master
to those brought here, and may thus make possible their return as
messengers of good will through the grace of our Lord.
For a second year we have heard of the need of religious work being
done in military camps of North Carolina, where probably more enlisted
men are quartered than in any other state. Again our churches have
responded, knowing that through the ministry of men and women in or
near camp communities it is possible to keep burning the flames of
Christian truth among our men far from homes in which they were
reared.
In somewhat similar manner our churches are finding it a worthy
service to care for the spiritual needs of those on week-end furloughs
in communities throughout the State. Upon the churches of some local-
ities in the vicinity of camps this task is overwhelming, and is being
met with heroic spirit. Upon the church in almost every community of
the State there is a personal responsibility to greet the stranger in uni-
form, welcome him to the church and homes of our people and minister
to him in the glad spirit of the Master.
III. Post- War World
We believe that Christianity is ever vital, ever resurgent in the life
of the world, that the future, and not the past, is the golden age for
the Kingdom of God. Accordingly we look toward the ushering in of
that day which will be the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy, "Neither
shall they learn war any more."
We rejoice in hundreds of agencies that are persistently planning
for the acceptance of principles on which an enduring peace may be
formulated. Statesmen, editors, teachers, church leaders in all lands
have been discussing as in no other war the making of a righteous
peace. For all of this we thank God, and take courage. At the same
time we affirm the unfaltering conviction that it is supremely the busi-
ness of the church to declare God's way of living for men and nations.
There can be no lasting peace without Him who is the Prince of Peace.
We endorse the underlying rights of all people enjoined in the
"Four Freedoms" of President Roosevelt, the declaration of the Atlantic
Charter, the first conference at Delaware, Ohio, seeking the basis of a
just and durable peace, and the recent Princeton international Round
Table, as helpful documents for finding the Christian way for peace and
good will. In them we single out for emphatic endorsement : freedom
of speech, freedom of every person to worship God in his own way,
freedom from want and freedom from fear — "everywhere in the world" ;
"the enjoyment by all states, great and small, victor and vanquished, of
access on equal terms to the trade and to the raw materials of the world
which are needed for their economic prosperity" ; the right of all peoples
to choose the form of government under which they will live; the neces-
sity for reducing the burden of taxes expended by the nations of the
world on military establishments ; the crushing of hatred and revenge,
and the employment of forgiveness and good-will in dealing with enemy
nations. We recognize that our world is one, a unit in which some
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community of nations must work together, and at the same time make
possible the expression by every group of those ideals it holds for itself.
Government for over-run nations and colonial peoples can result only
from the making of a wholesome treaty. We declare our belief that a
righteous peace must recognize the right of every nation and of every
person in it to the full use of God-given talents and opportunities.
IV. Racial Matters
Since the war began in Europe four years ago racial tensions have
been acute, often blazing out in destructive ways. The treatment of Jews
in many lands has been one of the most heinous crimes of history. Their
utter extermination planned sj^stematically by Nazi leaders must always
call for vigorous condemnation by Christians. In this country riots be-
tween Negroes and whites in several cities are greatly deplored. The
unwillingness on the part of many white people to accord Negroes full
opportunity for growth in a genuine democracy, and the bitterness shown
by some of the colored leaders in seeking to obtain rights denied them,
are not in accord with Christian ideals for living together. The pres-
ence in this country of descendants of nations against whom we are
fighting produces additional friction. In the first world war Germans,
and those removed by one generation from the Fatherland, often were
the objects of scorn and indifference. The bitterness expressed toward
some of them at that time seems in this war to have been directed
chiefly against the descendants of Japanese in the western part of the
country, with the placing of a large part of the Japanese population
in internment camps.
We urge upon our people charity of feeling, that we may be able to
avoid intolerance toward those of other races. Let us recognize the
good in all races and in many of every nation, even as we recognize the
undesirable in all peoples and in many of every nation. We intreat our
people to try to learn the viewpoints of others, to temper their judg-
ments with the attempt to put ourselves in their places, and to encourage
the natural instinct of every people for freedom and self expression.
We commend the move to take out of camps the interned Japanese, and
place them in positions where they may pursue normal ways of living
in our democracy. We endorse the efforts of some of our churches, and
especially the W. M. U. of North Carolina, to assist our Negro brethren
and sisters in following a worthy program of Christian activity, and
express appreciation for the helpful conferences that have been con-
ducted toward this end. We pray that our hearts may be free from all
bigotry, and that instead they may be suffused with the love of Him
who made of one all nations of the earth.
V. Juvenile Delinquency
It does not seem right for your committee to pass by the alarming
situation that flourishes in connection with the morality of youth. For
the years of the war civic organizations, recorders' courts, state health
officials and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have sounded warning
after warning over the mounting rate of delinquency. A report before
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the National Probation Association last April revealed that in 148 juve-
nile courts of all cities and counties above 50,000 there has been an
increase of 8% of cases tried from 1940 to 1941, and a still further
increase of 9% from 1941 to 1942, when 112,889 cases were tried.
J. Edgar Hoover, of the F. B. I., reports that for the year 1942 the
arrest of girls under 21 rose from 9,675 the preceding year to 15,068.
There are many causes of this condition over our land. In a time of
war there is always a restlessness, which affects youth no less than
adults. The sinister influences of war reach out over the lands affected,
and cast their shadows over young and old alike. The stabilizing in-
fluence of the school slips. It was reported by the secretary of the
National Education Association to its annual meeting in Indianapolis
last June that 2,000,000 boys and girls between fourteen and eighteen
years of age had left school to work, that a half million of them were
fourteen and fifteen, and many thousands under fourteen. Broken homes,
frequently with both parents away most of the day and night, at work
or in government service, complicates the problem. The glamor of the
uniform on any enlisted man too often proves a stumbling block for
unwary and undirected girls, whose steps are wayward turned.
As a Convention, we place ourselves on record to endeavor to help
youth and lead it in ways of stability and right living. We would urge
our men and women by example, no less than by precept, to direct aright
the behavior of our youth. To that end we urge the strengthening
of family ties in the midst of conditions that all but tear them to pieces.
We would call attention to the importance of boys and girls continuing
their school work in order to meet the needs of that generation of men
and women of which they will be a part. We favor the strengthening
of our juvenile courts and probation offices, so that they may give more
particular attention to offenders both at the time of the offense and in
following up the career of the offender. Most of all, we pray for a
church ministry from pulpit to the last class room, from minister to
every person under whose care children may come, that it may lead into
the abundant life of all the children of our land.
VI. Church League for Abolition of Alcoholic Beverage Sale
Consistently the church must take its stand for sobriety and temper-
ance. Intemperance in anything is objectionable; but perhaps in nothing,
is it seen at its worst more than in the drinking of alcoholic beverages.
The regular increase in the consumption of liquor has been steady since
the repeal of the 18th Amendment, and has placed the United States
among the leaders in drunkenness.
Among various efforts to outlaw this saboteur we endorse the recently
organized Allied Church League for the Abolition of Beverage Alcohol,
and rejoice in its successful enlistment of leading denominations of
North Carolina for educating against the evils of strong drink, and for
marshaling the temperance forces of the State to outlaw its sale. We
heartily commend the participation of the Baptist State Convention with
its influence and money in the accomplishment of these ends.
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VII. Week-Day Religious Education
We endorse the movement in many communities throughout the State
to include in the curriculum of the local schools the teaching of the
Bible. It is understood that during the 1942-1943 school session at least
sixty high schools and perhaps twice as many elementary schools oifered
coures in Bible study, and that this session the number is still larger.
We favor this as an aid in the solution of the serious juvenile de-
linquency problem that has greatly increased in recent years, calling for
alarm signals from church and civic groups, the F. B. I. and other
government agencies. We believe it is an excellent opportunity to train
our children in those essential fundamentals of morality and good citizen-
ship set forth in their highest expression in the Bible.
It has been objected that this type of teaching in our schools violates
our traditional view of the separation of church and state. While it is
true that we must not attempt to teach in a state institution any sec-
tarian religion, this movement, however, is an effort to inculcate ethical
principles for every person whether he claims to be Christian or not.
Furthermore, the course is voluntary. No one is forced to take it,
although credit is allowed for it. The same arrangement may be per-
mitted Catholics or Jews in our State school system. Again, the State
does not pay for the teaching of this course. Money is raised by the
churches or by private subscription, which keeps inviolate the whole
principle of the relation of church and state. In view of these facts
we believe we are justified in expressing hearty approval of this matter.
VIII. North Carolina Council of Churches
The great social problems set forth in this report, such as war, racial
tension, drink, crime, are general, and can be solved successfully only by
united action. It would seem logical to conclude that the followers of
Christ in all denominations, basically united by a common faith and
brotherhood, can more powerfully interpret the fundamental Christian
principles in the light of present world problems, and more efficiently
promote civic righteousness through some form of interdenominational
cooperation, voluntarily adopted.
It is for that purpose the North Carolina Council of Churches has
operated for several years. Heretofore individual Baptists have co-
operated with this bod}' as they desired, but the Convention has refrained
from throwing a united support behind the Council, which serves as a
medium through which the increasingly necessary cooperative efforts of
Christian people may be carried out. Its power could be greatly en-
hanced, we modestly claim, if our State Convention, representing more
than a half-million members, added the weight of its opinion and con-
viction in pronouncing upon matters that challenge the Christian con-
science from time to time. North Carolina Baptists, too, could be
helped by sitting in council with leaders of other Christian groups,
seeing their point of view, and joining with them in the promoting of
large tasks for which singly no denomination is adequately prepared.
We, therefore, propose that this session of the State Convention
consider the matter of affiliation with the Council of Churches to find
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out if after all through this or some similar cooperative agency we may
not best minister toward the ushering in of the Kingdom of God.
Committee :
E. N. Gardner, Chairman
Lee C. Sheppard
L. H. Campbell
W. W. Finlator
Garland A. Hendricks
W. Wilbur Hutchins
H. W. Baucom, Jr.
Edwin F. Perry
R. L. Patton
T. P. Pruitt
Prior to a discussion of the report as read, it was agreed upon motion by
Trela D. Collins, Durham, that J. B. Weatherspoon of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, Louisville, should first bring his message on "The
Christian Message and the New World Order." Thereafter George W.
Paschal, Wake Forest, moved and the Convention agreed to and adopted
Article I through VI of the report. Concerning Article VII, "Week-Day
Religious Education" and Article VII, "North Carolina Council of Churches,"
a lengthy discussion arose, involving the extension of time. Strong and vigor-
ous remarks were made in support of these articles and equally strong and
vigorous remarks were made in opposition and by a standing vote, the Con-
vention upon motion by R. N. Simms, Raleigh, voted to delete these two articles
from the report.
23. At the close of this session, Chairman Marshall L. Mott of the Com-
mittee on Enrollment announced that a total of 799 messengers and visitors
were registered.
24. L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh, offered prayer and the Convention adjourned.
TUESDAY— Evening Session
25. The choir of the host church under the direction of H. Grady Miller,
with Paul Lupo, organist, led in the singing of "Blessed Assurance."
26. Director Horace Easom and L. C. Pinnex sang a duet, "Nailed to the
Cross," and afterwards J. C. Canipe, Boone, offered prayer.
Song : "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross."
27. A report on the Sunday School Board, which follows, was read by
B. A. Bowers, Gastonia, North Carolina member on the Sunday School Board,
preceded a message brought by Hight C. Moore, Ridgecrest, formerly Edi-
torial Secretary of the Board.
REPORT OF SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD
The Sunday School Board has felt the pinch of the war perhaps as
much as any of our Convention agencies. Much of the personnel of the
Board has been called into service. Many of the essential materials
are hard to get, and some are not obtainable at all. The Board has
gladly cooperated with Washington, and is proud to be able to render
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a worthwhile service for the preservation of the high standards for
which we stand.
Truly the Lord has blessed us ; the past year, in many respects is
the best we have ever had. More people are using our publications,
studying our periodicals and reading our magazines and books than
ever. For the first quarter of 1943 the total circulation of all period-
icals was five and one half million copies. Many improvements have
been made in our literature. I mention especially the booklets for our
armed forces and the New Graded Lessons.
At the June meeting the Sunday School Board authorized the estab-
lishment of a Foundation to receive gifts and trust funds to be used
for special phases of their work.
We cannot speak too highly of the work done by Dr. H. C. Moore
and Dr. P. E. Burroughs, now retired. These men have served well.
Dr. W. R. White succeeds Dr. Moore, and Dr. J. O. Williams succeeds
Dr. Burroughs. These new men have already proved their worth and
are carrying on in a fine way. Mr. Harold Ingraham succeeds Dr.
Williams and Mr. J. N. Barnett succeeds Mr. Ingraham.
Gasoline and tire rationing has not stopped the flow of Baptists to
the various conferences at Ridgecrest. The past season was by far the
greatest we ever had. Special plans are being made to take care of the
crowds next summer. Dr. Moore, we are glad to say, is making Ridge-
crest his permanent home. We are delighted to have him back in
North Carolina.
Your Sunday School Board is yours for service.
28. The choir of the host church next sang "O Everyone That Thirsteth."
29. Special selections of scripture were quoted and prayer was led by C. H.
Durham, Salisbury.
30. The North Carolina member of the Relief and Annuity Board, E. N.
Gardner, Henderson, called attention to the report (see section 97, page 115),
which was approved upon his motion following the address on the program
of the Relief and Annuity Board by W. R. Alexander, Dallas.
31. A discussion of the work of the Foreign Mission Board was led by
Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem, the North Carolina member of the Board.
The following paragraph taken from the report of the Foreign Mission Board
was the keynote of the discussion :
"To the Foreign Mission Board 1943 is indeed 'the year of liberty' —
tine time of its emancipation from the bondage of debt. The generosity
of Southern Baptists coupled with the Board's competent leadership,
wise management, and rigid economy have broken the shackles and, on
March 12, 1943, the financial obligation which, ten years before had
reached the distressing height of $1,621,643.56 (including some debts in
mission lands) was removed. It is with humble gratitude that a tri-
umphant Board now faces a challenging future."
The discussion of the great need for more assistance in the work of World
Missions continued, and telegrams were read from John W. Lowe, Richmond,
Va., and Louie D. Newton, Atlanta, Chairman Southern Baptist Kit Campaign
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for Russia urging that the Convention take an offering and increase the
assistance. An offering followed and the sum of $468.89 was contributed.
A large group of missionaries, now back home, most of them because of
the ravages of war in the areas of their work were introduced and extended
friendly and warm greetings.
Following, George W. Sadler, Richmond, Va., Secretary for Africa, Europe,
and the Near East, brought a message on "Christianity Permeating the New
World Order."
32. After the announcement by the Committee on Enrollment that 826
messengers and 117 visitors had been registered, the audience stood and sang
"All Hail the Power of Jesus Name" and following prayer by Eph Whisen-
hunt, Clayton, the session adjourned.
WEDNESDAY— Morning Session
33. This session opened with the singing of "I Love Thy Kingdom Lord,"
and "Faith of Our Fathers, Living Still."
34. At the last Convention a committee composed of Wm. Harrison Wil-
liams, Charlotte, C. B. Deane, Rockingham, and E. S. Summers, Concord,
was named to make a study of the Constitution and bring to this Convention
any suggestions that would improve and clarify certain sections of the Con-
stitution. Wm. Harrison Williams made the following report for the Com-
mittee and upon his motion the report was adopted.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION
1st. In Article IV, section 2. Omit the words "He shall appoint
all committees unless the Convention shall otherwise direct." In their
place insert the words "He shall in advance of the meeting of the Con-
vention appoint a Committee on Enrollment consisting of nine members,
and a Committee on Committees consisting of fifteen members. He may
appoint other committees when so directed by the body.
2nd. Insert Article V. Duties of Committees.
1. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Enrollment to provide
registration cards for messengers, and have them in a suitable place
several hours before the time set for the opening session of the Conven-
tion. This committee shall make a report to the assembled messengers
upon the call of the President.
2. The Committees of the Convention shall be grouped into two
categories :
(A) Those appointed to serve during the session of the Con-
vention by which they are appointed, and
(B) Those appointed to report at a subsequent meeting of the
Convention; and both (A) and (B) shall be named by
the Committee on Committees.
Those in group (A) shall be designated as follows:
(1) Committee to Report on General Board's Report.
(2) Committee on Place and Preacher for the next Convention.
(3) Committee on Resolutions.
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Those in group (B) shall be designated as follows:
(1) Committee on Order of Business for the subsequent
Convention.
(2) Committee to Nominate Trustees of the Convention, its
Institutions and Members of the General Board.
(3) Committee on Social Service and Civic Righteousness.
(4) The Historical Commission.
(5) Committee on Publicity.
3. The Committee on Committees shall report to the Convention as
soon after the organization of the Convention as may be practicable.
Change Articles five through seven to six through eight.
3. Changes in present Article seven.
Art. VII, section four : Strike out words "Provided that" through
"with interest."
After section five insert.
Section 6.
Any and all resolutions presented to the Convention shall be referred
to the Committee on Resolutions, except that by a two-thirds vote of
the messengers then present the rules may be suspended and a resolution
placed upon its immediate consideration. Change present section 6 to
section 7.
4. Under "By-laws of the General Board."
Change title from "By-laws of the General Board" to "Rules for
Operation of the General Board."
In Article three change words "Department of" to "Committee on"
and strike out "Secretary of" Missions, Training Activities, Benevolences
and Education.
Your Committee has found that there are many items in the Con-
stitution which should be included in a set of by-laws, that there are
repetitions in the various articles, and that some expressions should be
clarified; we therefore recommend that a committee of five be appointed
who shall, at the next session of the Convention, present a revised Con-
stitution of the Convention.
35. General Secretary, Maloy A. Huggins, took charge of the next order,
a consideration of and general discussion of State Missions. After recognizing
the Mission Pastors, including Edwin F. Perry, Lewis E. Ludlum, and James
H. Butler, leaders in the camp and defense areas of the State, Associational
Missionaries Miss Ruth Keller of the Cadwell, Miss Willa B. Marks of the
Surry, Miss Laura Mae Hillard of the Yancey and French Broad, Miss Madge
S. Lewis of the Haywood, Mrs. Fannie Gibson of the Macon and West
Liberty, and Tom S. Lawrence of the Pilot Mountain, U. S. Army Chaplains
Alfred L. Pollock, Thomas C. Holland, Raymond Long, William W. Lynes,
Clifford C. Crow, Lloyd W. Teague, J. A. Hudson, and J. Lynn Elder, and
General Missionaries M. O. Alexander and J. C. Pipes, he presented E. L.
Spivey, successor to Douglas M. Branch, the new General Missionary, with
headquarters in Charlotte, who brought a Special Message on State Missions.
36. A. B. Conrad, High Point, brought at this time the special scripture
reading and prayer.
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37. A discussion of Home Missions followed with R. K. Redwine, Mount
Airy, the North Carolina Member of the Board, presenting the report which
follows as a matter of information. After recognizing F. D. Hemphill, Durham
and T. L. Sasser, Greensboro, City Missionaries in North Carolina, he intro-
duced Alfred Carpenter, Atlanta, who brought the Home Mission Address.
HOME MISSION REPORT
For God and Country
Emblazoned on the honor roll in many of our towns is this phrase
"For God and Country." This might well have been the motto of mis-
sionaries through the years for while serving God they were also serv-
■ ing their country as evidenced by Wendell L. Willkie's assertion in his
popular book One World.
In chapter 10 entitled "Our Reservoir of Good Will" he says,
"There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will
toward us, the American people."
"Many things have created this enormous reservoir. At the top of
the list go the hospitals, schools, and colleges which Americans — mis-
sionaries, teachers, and doctors — have founded in the far corners of the
earth." Now Mr. Willkie nowhere else mentions religious activities of
any kind but we see that he was impressed by the influence which hos-
pitals, schools, and colleges supported by Americans had made upon
the peoples of the world. Now we know that these enterprises have
been supported almost without exception by the mission boards of the
churches in America.
Mr. Willkie says further that "Good will has been stored up for
us, like credit in a bank account." This account on which we as a
nation have been drawing so heavily today, was deposited by the small
percentage of the population who were missionaries and those who
have supported them.
Emphasis on Home Missions
Great missionary leaders have put great stress on the importance
of home mission work.
Dr. Austin Phelps said, "If I were a missionary to China, my first
and most important prayer would be for missions in America for the
sake of China."
John R. Mott, speaking of the impact of home missions upon foreign
missions said, "The ultimate triumph of pure Christianity in non-Chris-
tian lands depends absolutely upon Christianizing this impact." That
is to say, a Christianity which does not conquer at home will not be
able to conquer abroad.
In religion as really as in commerce we can not give to the people
abroad what we do not have at home.
Cause for Rejoicing
Occasion for universal rejoicing among Southern Baptists is the
fact that for the first time since 1920 the Home Mission Board is out
of debt. The final note of the Board's indebtedness was paid on May
12, 1943. When the final $55,000 note was paid on that date it terminated
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a struggle against debt for fifteen years during which time the Home
Mission Board paid a total of $2,425,531.91 on debts. Since 1933 the
Hundred Thousand Club as furnished $636,900.21 which was a little
over one-fourth of the total amount of our debts. The other three-
fourths was paid by the Board from Co-operative Program and general
denominational receipts.
Over 400 Workers
The Board's report shows a total of 475 workers on all fields. Dur-
ing the year thirteen new missionaries were added, fortry-three mission
stations opened and six churches constituted.
The missionaries preached 37,657 sermons, and led 15,928 to profess
faith in Christ.
During the year the Board enlarged its work in all fields and also
added new departments. Notable among these was the City Mission
department. About 25 missionaries are now employed in the City Mis-
sion work. They have enlisted more than 3000 volunteer workers.
Total offerings for the year 1942 amounted to $767,371.41. This
total included $333,785.71 from the Co-operative Program, $224,910.38
from the Annie Armstrong offering, $112,312.34 from the Hundred
Thousand Club, and $53,068.83 from general designations. The Bottoms
Trust Fund yielded an income of $33,663.05. For the first ten months
of 1943 there was an increase in the total receipts of $191,295.45 over
the same period of last year.
Dr. Beagle Retires
After twenty-six years of service with the Home Mission Board,
sixteen of which he had given as field secretary in charge of mission
work in the homeland, Dr. J. W. Beagle was granted retirement upon
his request January 1, 1943. In the final report presented by Dr. Beagle,
he revealed that there were 271 workers in his department who re-
ported 4,089 conversions and 2,014 baptisms for the year 1942. Dr.
Beagle has been a faithful and devoted servant of Southern Baptists.
38. W. H. Moore, Raleigh, special representative of the General Board,
introduced the subject and spoke briefly on his work for the Wake Forest
Chapel and then introduced Claude Gaddy, Raleigh, who continued the dis-
cussion on the work of completing the Chapel which the Convention committed
itself to erect at the 1939 Convention, held in Winston-Salem.
39. The following resolution was presented by W. Perry Crouch, and by
direction of President Greer it was referred to the Committee on Resolutions :
RESOLUTION TO PURCHASE HOME FOR THE GENERAL
SECRETARY
Since the offices of the Convention have been in Raleigh all these
years, and will likely continue to be, and believing that it would be
wise for the Convention to own a home there as a residence for the
General Secretary of the Convention, we offer the following resolution :
(1) That the Convention appoint a committee of seven (7) whose
duty it shall be to purchase a home, if one can be secured at a reason-
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able price, or to buy a lot upon which a home shall be erected after the
war, if this appears, after investigation, to be the wise course.
(2) That this committee shall report its findings, actions and recom-
mendations to the General Board, or to the next Convention; and that
the General Board shall have the power to determine the ways and
means by which the funds are to be secured to finance the undertaking,
and to do all things necessary to fulfill the intent of this resolution.
40. C. P. St. Amant representing the Baptist Bible Institute and J. B.
Weatherspoon, representing the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary were
recognized, after which T. B. Mason, representing the Southwestern Bap-
tist Theological Seminary spoke in behalf of all of the Seminaries.
41. A special message "Christian Youth and the New World Order" was
brought by J. W. Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, Personnel Secretary of the
Foreign Mission Board.
42. Robert L. Moore, Mars Hill, offered prayer and the session adjourned.
WEDNESDAY— Afternoon Session
43. The Wednesday afternoon session opened at the usual hour 2 :30 and
the audience stood and sang, "More Love To Thee."
44. O. R. Mangum, Chairman reported for the Committee on Place and
Preacher. The recommendation of the Committee that the First Baptist Church,
Charlotte be the place of meeting, and that Sankey L. Blanton, Wilmington,
be asked to preach the Convention Sermon with R. K. Benfield, Hickory as
alternate, was approved.
45. The report of the Baptist Historical Commission (see section 102,
page 123 was read by L. L. Morgan, Raleigh, and upon his motion the
report was adopted.
46. A report from the Trustees of the Baptist State Convention was read
by L. L. Morgan, which follows, and upon his motion was adopted :
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BAPTIST STATE
CONVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA
The Board is composed of R. L. McMillan, F. H. Brooks and E.
L. Layfield, F. H. Brooks being Chairman and R. L. McMillan, Sec-
retary. Only one meeting has been held during the year, this being on
July 22, 1943.
In this meeting the following resolution was adopted :
"Whereas the Executive Committee of the General Board of the
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, in its meeting on June 17,
1943, passed a motion authorizing the purchase of certain property at
Carolina Beach at a price of about $7,000 with an initial payment of
about $1,700, and
Whereas the General Secretary has made arrangements for the
purchase of said property, agreeing to pay for the property the sum
of Seven Thousand Dollars ($7,000.00), plus a sewer assessment of
One Hundred and Fifty-Two Dollars and Three Cents ($152.03), and
has agreed to pay one-third of said purchase price in cash, namely, Two
Thousand, Three Hundred and Eighty-four Dollars and One Cent,
($2,384.01), and
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Whereas agreement has been made to borrow from the Carolina
Building and Loan Association of Wilmington, North Carolina, the
sum of Four Thousand, Eight Hundred Dollars ($4,800.00), which
loan is to be repaid at the rate of Seventy-two Dollars ($72.00) per
month,
Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Trustees of the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina that F. H. Brooks, chairman of said
trustees, be authorized to sign
(1) Indenture dated July 22, 1943
(2) Real Estate Bond in the amount of $4,800.00 and that R. L.
McMillan, secretary of said trustees, be authorized and instructed to
attest the same, both indenture and bond."
At this meeting the trustees also approved a contract between the
Baptist State Convention and the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company,
which contract provided for the supplying of heat for the Biblical
Recorder Building from the heating plant of the nearby Professional
Building. This contract provided for payment by the Convention of
$900 a year, based upon the present cost of labor and fuel, and with
provision for slight changes in the contract on the part of both parties
as conditions may change. The trustees signed the agreement because
title to the building is vested in the Trustees of the Convention.
The Convention requires bonds of certain officers and employees of
the Convention. We find the following bonds are in force :
M. A. Huggins, Treasurer of the Convention $25,000
Margie Murchison, Bookkeeper, Debt Service Fund 10,000
Esther Ivey, Bookkeeper 10,000
Lottie Tucker, Bookkeeper Ministers' Retirement Fund.... 5,000
The following bonds are in force for employees of the Baptist Book
Store :
Mrs. Madge A. Marshall, Manager $5,000
Mary Ayscue, Associate 1,000
Mrs. Margaret Burch Link, Associate 1,000
Iva Maddry, Associate 1,000
Mrs. Mary Mangum, Clerk 1,000
Respectfully submitted,
E. L. Layfield
For the Committee
47. After prayer by Hight C. Moore, the audience sang "Wonderful Words
of Life."
48. A consideration of the Report of the Baptist Orphanage of North
Carolina (see section 98, page 116) followed with Zeno Wall, Chairman of
the Board of Trustees presiding. A special message in song was first pre-
sented by a group of boys and girls from the Mills Home. Miss Sarah Elmore,
Superintendent of Mills Home was then recognized, who in turn presented
Miss Ruth Patterson, who spoke on "What the Orphanage Has Meant to Me."
W. C. Reed, Superintendent of the Kennedy Home then spoke on the
Orphanage report in a very appropriate manner. This was followed by the
Orphanage male quartet. Upon motion by Zeno Wall the report was adopted.
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On the suggestion of Mrs. A. J. Smith of Goldsboro the Secretary was re-
quested to send a message of appreciation in behalf of the Convention to Mr.
J. C. Hough of Red Oak for his years of service as Superintendent of the
Kennedy Home.
49. J. S. Lynch, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Baptist Hos-
pitals, Inc., had charge of the presentation of the Hospital Report (see section
99, page 117). He read the following resolution and upon his motion it was
adopted. "Be it resolved :
1. That the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Baptist Hos-
pitals, Inc., be authorized and instructed to change their charter so as
to provide for a Board of Trustees of Twenty-four members instead
of twenty members ;
2. That the Committee to Nominate Trustees of the Convention, Its
Institutions and Members of the General Board be instructed to nom-
inate to the present Hospital Board four new members, the term of one
to expire in 1944, one in 1945, one in 1946, and one in 1947."
During the discussion of the Hospital Report by Miss Willie Mae Toms,
Bostic, President, Senior Class of School of Nursing in the Hospital, and by
Mrs. J. J. Roddick, Winston-Salem, a member of the Board of Trustees, who
emphasized the twenty years of service rendered by the Hospital, a large group
of nurses from the Hospital occupied the greater part of the center section of
the auditorium. The report was then adopted upon motion by J. S. Lynch.
50. The Convention then adjourned early, following prayer by Wm. Har-
rison Williams, Charlotte, in order that those in attendance might visit the
Bowman Gray Medical School of Wake Forest College, and the Baptist Hos-
pital, and be received and greeted there by the respective Boards of Trustees.
WEDNESDAY— Evening Session
51. Convening at 7:30 the audience heard a special chorus composed of the
nurses from the Baptist Hospital with H. Grady Miller, Minister of Music of
the Host Church leading, assisted at the organ by Paul Lupo. The opening
numbers included "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross," and "The Old Rugged
Cross." The opening prayer was led by Hoyt Blackwell, Mars Hill.
52. Reports were received at this hour from the various colleges : J. Win-
ston Pearce for Campbell ; President Phil L. Elliott for Gardner- Webb ; Trus-
tee L. D. Munn for Wingate ; Trustee E. F. Watson for Mars Hill ; Trustee
W. H. Weatherspoon for Meredith. Prior to the report given by Trustee
John A. Oates for Wake Forest, the Wake Forest Octet, composed of Miss
Elizabeth Bryan, Miss Leslie Fowler, Miss Letha Smith, Miss Emily Crandall,
Don Keyser, Calvin Knight, Bill Padgett, and Woodrow Wall, sang "A
Prayer for Wisdom."
53. The Education Committee created by the General Board in January
1942 (see section 81, pages 73, 74, and 75 of the 1942 Annual) and approved
by the 1942 Convention meeting in High Point, made the following and final
report through the Chairman W. H. Weatherspoon, Raleigh, and upon his
motion the report was unanimously adopted.
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REPORT OF THE EDUCATION COMMISSION
Your Education Commission, appointed at the High Point Conven-
tion of 1942, respectfully submits the following report:
Immediately following the Convention, the Commission met in Raleigh
and effected its organization. An Executive Committee was named to
survey the Baptist institutions of higher learning in North Carolina and
to recommend to the Commission whatever action it deemed necessary
to achieve a program of Christian Education which would merit and
receive from the Baptists of the State their enthusiastic approval and
their generous financial support. This Executive Committee reported to
the full Commission in July that in its opinion only education experts
were qualified to make a survey of the separate institutions as to details
of administration, curricula, physical plants, and other matters pertaining
to the management of these institutions. It called attention to the fact
that a survey had been made by experts from Peabody College in 1939
and that this Peabody report, although not complete in the opinion of the
Commission, probably represents a fairer appraisal of the institutions
than could now be had under abnormal war-time conditions. The Execu-
tive Committee, therefore, recommended to the Commission that it limit
itself to a consideration of general policies looking toward the integra-
tion of these institutions into a single system and suggested a number of
steps by which such an integrated system might be had. The report was
as follows :
1. That religion has something distinctive and of highest value
to contribute to the life of everyone.
2. That we are able to justify establishing and maintaining Chris-
tian schools as a means of obtaining, in the fullest possible
degree, religion's distinctive contribution; and except for the
promulgation of religious truth and creation of a religious at-
mosphere in which to study all other truth, it would be sound
business judgment to dispense with the church schools and
patronize our most excellent state colleges and universities.
3. That formal instruction in religion as Baptists understand it,
and as Baptists believe it should be practiced, is not practicable
in a publicly supported institution.
4. That the denomination must have well-educated ministers and
religious workers, and the Christian college is the natural place
to which prospective ministers and workers should turn for
their preseminary or other special training.
5. That history confirms the belief that the Christian college is a
powerful factor in maintaining the democratic principle in re-
ligion and in secular matters. National socialism, regimenta-
tion, the loss of freedoms, and totalitarianism may within a
generation easily follow the abolition of Christian schools.
6. That during this critical period of world revolution, out of
which will come greater challenges to religious principles and
truths, it is our solemn duty to adopt a reasonable Baptist
educational program and to' insure its success by enlarging,
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adequately equipping, and supporting Baptist educational insti-
tutions.
The Committee, therefore, suggests that consideration be given
to
(a) Limiting, for the present, the financial support of the
State Convention to Wake Forest College, including the Bow-
man Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College, Mere-
dith College, Mars Hill College, and Campbell College.
(b) Placing all of the above named institutions under a
single board of trustees with a separate executive committee,
appointed by the board from among its members, for each of
the four institutions ; that the single board be composed of not
more than 60 persons of whom not less than 25 per cent shall
be women ; that each member of the board shall be a member
of a Baptist church within the State ; that each member be
elected for a term not exceeding six years and not be eligible
for immediate re-election.
(c) Such coordination between the work of the senior col-
leges as may be feasible.
(d) Making a survey in order to determine the number of
young men and women available annually as college students
from Baptist homes within the State.
(e) Estimating the expansion and equipment necessary to
enable the junior colleges and the senior colleges to offer to
prospective students the facilities, equipment, and educational
standards reasonably equal to those offered by other institu-
tions of higher education.
(f) Launching by the Convention of a single campaign to
be conducted over a period of from three to five years for the
purpose of raising from $3,500,000 to $5,000,000 for expanding
and adequately equipping the named institutions.
(g) Omitting the consideration of questions of administra-
tive matters until the matters before mentioned have been
settled. In making this suggestion it is the view of the Execu-
tive Committee that a successful expansion program will make
easy the solution of many other questions.
After full and frank discussion of the report of its Executive Com-
mittee, the Commission found that there existed within it such diver-
gencies of opinion that it was unable to take action. Whereupon it
requested the Executive Committee to re-examine its suggestions in the
light of the discussion which had taken place.
The Executive Committee held further meetings, on October 15, and
November 2, and called the full Commission into session on November
3 to hear its final report. Its recommendations which now become the
recommendations of this Commission to the State Convention were as
follows :
1. That the Baptist State Convention reaffirm its belief in Chris-
tian Education through church-supported schools and colleges,
and express its appreciation for the noble work which its own
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institutions in North Carolina have done through the years,
and pledge to them its loyal support for the future.
2. That Wingate Junior College and Gardner-Webb College be
recognized as local Baptist institutions meriting the support of
the associations within the territory which they serve, and
under the same relationship as now exists between these in-
stitutions and the Convention.
3. That Mars Hill College and Campbell College be recognized
as junior colleges of the Baptist State Convention and continue
to share in the allocation of funds received by the Convention.
4. That Meredith College and Wake Forest College be recog-
nized as senior colleges of the Baptist State Convention and
continue to share in the allocation of Convention funds.
5. That the Convention endorse and approve the efforts of all of
these institutions to raise needed funds from their alumni and
friends for the expansion of their plants and enlargement of
their endowments.
6. That there shall be appointed a permanent Council on Chris-
tian Education to consist of the President of the Baptist
State Convention ; the President of the Woman's Missionary
Union; the President of the General Board; the Chairman of
the Education Committee of the General Board ; the General
Secretary of the Convention ; the President of the Board of
Trustees ; the Chairman of the Executive Committee, and the
President and Dean of each of the educational institutions
which may at the time be receiving funds from the Convention
for current operating expenses.
It shall be their duty to meet at the call of the General
Secretary at least quarterly to consider ways and means of
further correlating the work of the various institutions and
make recommendations upon the same to the Board of Trus-
tees of the institutions involved, to the end that each may be
of the greatest possible service in the cause of Christian educa-
tion ; to study and give consideration to the needs of the insti-
tutions and make recommendations to the General Board of
the Convention concerning the disposition of funds which may
be available for current operating support ; to formulate plans
for increasing the interest and support of Baptist people every-
where in their educational program ; and shall make an annual
report to the Convention upon such plans.
7. That upon the acceptance of this report the present Commis-
sion be dissolved.
54. The Hospital Chorus sang "Heaven Resound."
55. J. W. Kincheloe, Rocky Mount, continued the special period in reading
the scripture and the offering of prayer.
56. Christian Education in the Churches was the next order presided over
by General Secretary Huggins. Since all of the time had been consumed
L. L. Morgan, representing the Division of Sunday School, W. Wilbur Hutch-
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ins the Division of Training Union, and R. T. Howerton, Jr., the Student
Work brought brief messages.
57. A quartet composed of Joe Hamrick, William E. Shield, Grady Miller,
and J. T. Morgan, sang "I Need Thee Every Hour."
58. Even at the late hour the audience remained and received the message
on "Christian Education in North Carolina" by Zeno Wall, Shelby.
59. After the announcement by Marshall L. Mott, Enrollment Chairman,
that 962 messengers had registered and prayer by Charles B. Howard, Buie's
Creek, the session adjourned.
THURSDAY— Morning Session
60. The closing session opened at 9 :00 with the singing of "Take Time to
Be Holy," the quoting of several selections of scripture and the singing of "I
Need Thee Every Hour."
61. Upon motion by John T. Wayland, Durham, the Presiding and Record-
ing Secretary of the Convention, and the General Secretary were authorized
to perfect the journal and the reading of same was dispensed with.
62. Secretary Oscar Creech of the Committee to Report on the General
Board's report, brought the following majority report and moved its adoption.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO REPORT ON THE
GENERAL BOARD'S REPORT
We wish to recommend the adoption of Recommendations 1 through
9 (see section 104, page 126) of the Report of the General Board, with
the following addition to Recommendation 1 :
It is our hope that as soon as the debts of the Convention have been
paid, that money given through the Cooperative Program will be divided
fifty-fifty between State Objects and Southwide Objects. In our opinion
numerous calls for money and objects howevery worthy are confusing
and bundensome to our people. The best plan for meeting our mis-
sionary and benevolent opportunities is a greater support and promotion
of the Cooperative Program.
We further recommend the adoption of this additional recommenda-
tion to be designated number 10.
Whereas there is a serious shortage of nurses, both for the armed
forces of the United States and the civilian population, and on that
account the Federal Works Agency is interested in assisting the North
Carolina Baptist Hospital in the erection of a nurses' home for the use
of student nurses receiving training at the Baptist Hospital, and
Whereas the Federal Works Agency is willing to advance the sum
of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.00) toward the cost of the
nurses' home as compensation for services to be rendered by the Baptist
Hospital in the training of student nurses for the duration of the present
war and not to exceed six months thereafter, and
Whereas an additional thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) is
needed to complete the proposed building ;
Now Therefore, Be It Resolved that upon the request of the North
Carolina Baptist Hospital, and upon the recommendation of the General
Board, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, hereby gives
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its consent to the North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc., without im-
posing any financial obligation on the Baptist State Convention of North
Carolina, or its General Board, to encumber, if it becomes necessary, by
first mortgage or deed of trust, the proposed new nurses' home and
that portion of the present hospital grounds upon which same is to be
located to secure a loan not exceeding $35,000.00. It is understo'od and
agreed that the Federal Works Agency retains no interest in the prop-
erty, and exercises no control whatsoever in the management of the
home and training of nurses, and therefore, in our opinion there is no
violation of the principle of church and state, since there is no co-
ownership and no co-management.
Following the submission of the above report, H. G. Hammett, a member
of the Committee to Report on the General Board's Report, brought a sub-
stitute to the majority report, which read as follows:
I request permission of the Convention to dissent to the 10th recom-
mendation in the report of the committee on the report of the General
Board. While I, as a member of this committee, am in entire agreement
on the other nine recommendations included in this report, I must, to
be true to my convictions, protest the proposal to allow the Baptist
Hospital to borrow $35,000.00 so as to secure a grant, or subsidy of
$75,000.00 from the Federal Government.
I make this protest because of two profound convictions.
1. The acceptance of this proposal will incure more debt upon
the Baptists after we have been faithfully promised further debts
will not be made.
2. The acceptance of this gift, grant, or subsidy, will be, to my
mind, a direct violation of the principle of the separation of church
and state.
I want to assure the hospital of my loyalty and devotion. This protest,
in no way, is directed against the Committee, the General Board, or the
Hospital. Neither is it made with any feeling other than that of kind-
ness and love. My objection is simply made against the above proposal.
By mutual consent it was agreed, and the Convention approved, the first
nine recommendations of the General Board, as recommended by the Committee.
A heated and prolonged debate followed on the question of adopting or
rejecting the minority report brought by H. G. Hammett. At length Ralph
A. Herring, Winston-Salem, offered a motion that in lieu of accepting Gov-
ernment Funds the Convention itself undertake to build the Nurses' Home.
Secretary Huggins pointed out that an amendment to the Constitution would
be necessary if the motion involved the borrowing of money, and that, the
Constitution could not be amended on the last day of the session.
Upon motion by W. K. McGee, Thomasville, section one of the minority
report was deleted by a standing and divided vote. Upon further consideration
section two of the minority report was adopted by a standing and divided vote.
Whereupon the motion by Ralph A. Herring that the Convention undertake
in some way to build the nurses' home prevailed, and it was agreed that this
motion should be put in proper form and brought back to the floor of the Con-
vention. This motion as unanimously adopted follows :
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Be It Resolved by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
that the Trustees of the North Carolina Baptist 'Hospitals, Inc., be al-
lowed to borrow in the name of said corporation a sum not to exceed
One Hundred and Ten Thousand ($110,000.00), or whatever part of said
sum may be necessary for the erection of the Nurses' Home; and that
in order to secure said loan they be authorized and empowered to mort-
gage any and all said property of North Carolina Baptist Hospitals,
Inc., for the purpose of securing this loan, and that the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina give assurance to said Board of Trustees
of its support in the event an effort should be made to raise funds at
this time : that in the event such an effort is not made at this time the
Convention assure the Board of Trustees of the Hospital of its continued
support through the Baptist Cooperative Program.
Upon further consideration the following motion by Ralph A. Herring,
with reference to the same matter was unanimously adopted :
Be it resolved that the Trustees of North Carolina Baptist Hospitals,
Inc., be authorized to sell to the United States Government a parcel of
land on which it may construct a nurses' home. The Trustees of North
Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc., are further authorized to lease said
nurses' home from the United States Government upon such terms as
may be acceptable to the Board of Trustees.
It was understood and agreed to by the Convention that in the event the
proposition contained in the second motion proved to be unsatisfactory to the
Government, that the motion instructing the Hospital to raise and/or borrow
money for the construction of the nurses' home would stand as the action of
the Convention.
63. L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh, presented for the Publicity Committee the
report that follows and upon his motion it was adopted.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICITY
The Committee on Publicity wishes to express its gratitude to the
official convention reporters : Miss Martha Ann Allen of Wake Forest
College and Miss Julia Margrette Bryan of Meredith College for their
excellent work in reporting the Convention. Miss Bryan edited the
Daily Information Sheet and Miss Allen did the writing, but they took
turns staying on the floor of the Convention. About 15,000 words of
Convention news was sent out from our publicity office. Miss Allen
also was special reporter for the Charlotte Observer, Winston-Salem
Journal and Sentinel, United Press, and Old Gold and Black. The
Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel was especially cooperative about
running pictures.
Associated Press gave unusually good coverage to the whole Conven-
tion, and this was handled through the local newspaper office, especially
the Journal. Mr. Gowan Caldwell, the city editor, was especially helpful
in getting out material for Associated Press.
We want to thank the local pastors for giving us their time on the
"Call to Worship" program over WSJS Wednesday evening, November
17, 1943.
Mr. C. R. Austin did excellent work on the Convention for the
Charlotte Neivs.
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64. A report was received from the Radio Committee, Carl M. Townsend,
Chairman, and upon motion by Perry Crouch the report was adopted.
Your Radio Committee has been able to do some helpful things
during the past year, but, for various reasons, we are far from reaching
the full possibilities for radio in our Christian program.
We cooperated with the South-wide radio committee in broadcasting
the Baptist Hour during January, February, and March of this year.
We also arranged for the second series of broadcasts of the North
Carolina Baptist Hour during April, May, and June and the third series
which is now being broadcast during October, November, and December.
We wish to thank radio stations WPTF Raleigh and WBIG Greens-
boro for broadcasting the South-wide Baptist Hour; also WPTF Raleigh
and WSJS Winston-Salem for broadcasting the North Carolina Baptist
Hour and also WAYS Charlotte and WISE Asheville for feeding some
of these programs to the broadcasting stations.
We are happy to express our sincere appreciation of the splendid
work of the Radio Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention and
express our desire to continue to cooperate with this committee as ap-
pointed by our Southern Baptist Convention.
We call your attention to the North Carolina Baptist Hour now
being broadcast and the South-wide Baptist Hour for 1944. and urge
you to acquaint your church with the hour, the speakers, and the stations
over which the programs may be heard.
65. The Committee on the Nomination of the Trustees of the Convention,
its Institutions and Members of the General Board reported through the
Chairman, Ralph A. Herring, and upon his motion the following report was
approved.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO NOMINATE TRUSTEES OF THE
CONVENTION, ITS INSTITUTIONS AND MEMBERS
OF THE GENERAL BOARD
I. Trustees — Baptist State Convention :
Term Expiring 1944: R. L. McMillan, Raleigh; P. H. Wilson; F. H.
Brooks, Smithfield.
II. General Board — Members :
Term Expiring 1946 : Clyde E. Baucom, Wilson ; J. B. Efird, Charlotte ;
T. L. Cashwell, Gastonia; N. D. Fox, Sparta; A. B. Alderman, Snow Hill;
Carey P. Herring, Fairmont; Earle L. Bradley, Wilmington; W. E. Stanley,
Durham; Lloyd Griffin, Edenton ; C. F. Gore, Weldon ; S. L. Morgan, Jr.,
Dunn; Santford Martin, Winston-Salem; B. G. Henry, Tryon; Louis S.
Gaines, Lexington ; Harry Y. Gamble, Statesville ; J. E. Baker, Burlington.
Term Expiring 1944 : James B. Turner, Laurinburg replacing O. L. Moore,
Laurinburg, Resigned.
III. North Carolina Baptist Foundation — Directors :
Term Expiring 1946 : W. F. Marshall, Walnut Cove ; Guy Carswell, Char-
lotte; W. E. Goode, Scotland Neck.
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IV. North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Inc. — Trustees:
Term Expiring 1947: Mrs. J. J. Roddick, Winston-Salem; W. Grady
Southern, Winston- Salem; John R. Knott, Charlotte; E. L. Layfield, Raleigh;
G. E. Tucker, Winston-Salem.
Term Expiring 1944 : R. K. Redwine, Mount Airy to succeed T. W. Black-
well, deceased.
New Members :
Term Expiring 1944 : A. D. Kinnett, Burlington.
Term Expiring 1945 : B. B. Dougherty, Boone.
Term Expiring 1946: T. W. Baker, Charlotte.
Term Expiring 1947 : B. A. Bowers, Gastonia.
V. Baptist Orphanage of North Carolina — Trustees :
Term Expiring 1947: Homer Andrews, Burlington; W. T. Love, Jr.,
Elizabeth City; T. P. Pruitt, Hickory; Mrs. F. A. Bower, Morganton ; Mrs.
E. B. Gentry, Charlotte.
Term Expiring 1946: Carl Hood, Asheville replacing F. B. Hamrick,
deceased.
VI. Biblical Recorder, Inc. — Directors :
Term Expiring 1947: Oscar Creech, Ahoskie; E. H. Potts, Elizabeth City;
Carl M. Townsend, Raleigh ; Henry B. Anderson, Durham.
Term Expiring 1945 : Marshall L. Mott, Winston-Salem replacing John
W. Inzer, removed from the state.
Term Expiring 1946: Garland A. Hendricks, Apex replacing W. K. McGee,
resigned.
VII. Campbell College — Trustees :
Term Expiring 1947: George W. Davis, Farmville; Henry B. Day, Raleigh;
R. B. Wilkins, Durham ; R. M. Olive, Fayetteville ; W. C. Downing, Fayette-
ville.
Term Expiring 1944 : W. C. Lucas, Asheboro replacing D. R. Perry, Dur-
ham, resigned.
VIII. Chowan College — Trustees :
Term Expiring 1947 : J. P. Holoman, Weldon ; J. J. White, Greenville ;
Bailey Barnes, Ahoskie ; J. M. Duncan, Murfreesboro ; J. Mayon Parker,
Ahoskie.
IX. Mars Hill College— Trustees :
Term Expiring 1947: J. B. Grice, Asheville; Horace G. Hammett, Waynes-
ville; James B. Keith, Asheville; W. H. Hipps, Asheville; Mrs. C. M.
Palmer, Albemarle; Mrs. W. E. Logan, Asheville; J. R. Owen, Asheville.
Term Expiring 1946 : Mrs. Carl Bamford, Asheville replacing Mrs. John
W. Inzer, removed from the state.
X. Meredith College — Trustees :
Term Expiring 1947 : W. H. Weatherspoon, Raleigh ; Mrs. Maude Davis
Bunn, Raleigh; Harry B. Caldwell, Greensboro; A. J. Smith, Goldsboro; V.
M. Dorsett, Siler City ; L. A. Martin, Lexington ; James M. Hayes, Winston-
Salem.
Term Expiring 1946 : Eph Whisenhunt, Clayton replacing Forrest C.
Feezor, removed from state.
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XI. Wake Forest College — Trustees :
Term Expiring 1947: S. W. Brewer, Wake Forest; C. H. Durham, Lum-
berton; John Arch McMillan, Thomasville; D. E. Buckner, Greensboro; J.
Bivens Helms, Morganton ; G. A. Norwood, Goldsboro ; Clarence H. Poe,
Raleigh; Percy B. Upchurch, Monroe; J. B. Wyche, Hallsboro.
66. The report for the Committee on Resolutions was read by Louis A.
Gaines, Chairman, and upon his motion the report was approved.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS
Your Committee on Resolutions presents the following report :
I. General Matters:
We wish to express our sincere gratitude on behalf of the Baptist
State Convention:
To our amiable host, Dr. Ralph A. Herring, his co-workers, and
his fellow Baptist Pastors, who have worked ungrudgingly for the com-
fort and convenience of the officials of the Convention, its various com-
mittees and its messengers.
To the First Baptist Church for the use of its commodious, com-
fortable and beautiful house of worship, and to the ushers, custodians,
and all others who helped in caring for the sessions of the Convention.
To the churches of other denominations in the city co-operating so
beautifully in the provisions of meals and other comforts.
To Mr. Horace B. Easom, and all other musicians and singers who
have created the spirit of worship, which has prevailed throughout the
sessions of the Convention.
To all those who — -with beautiful Christian hospitality — have opened
their homes to the messengers and guests of the Convention.
To the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel and other newspapers
of the State, which have carried full, accurate and sympathetic accounts
of the proceedings of the Convention.
To the Royal Ambassadors who have served untiringly and effi-
ciently as pages of the Convention.
To the entire staff of the Baptist Hospital and the faculty of the
Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College for the
delightful hospitality provided and given to the messengers of the Con-
vention.
To the Mayor and other officials of the city of Winston-Salem for
many courtesies extended; in this connection we mention especially the
services of the Police Department for their protection, courtesies and
leniencies.
II. American Bible Society:
Be it resolved that we commend the great work of The American
Bible Society, which is making it possible for a wide distribution of
the Holy Scriptures among the men and women in service, and that we
recommend a continued active co-operation with this Society in all its
work.
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III. Re: Suggestion From the Joint Conference Committee on Public Relations
of the American Baptist Conventions:
Be it further resolved that — In co-operation with the Joint Con-
ference Committee on Public Relations, representing the Southern Bap-
tist Convention, the Northern Baptist Convention, the National Bap-
tist Convention, and the National Baptist Convention, Inc., — We recom-
mend that the Baptist pastors of the State of North Carolina make
"Freedom of Religion" the subject of discussion in all their pulpits
sometime during the convention year, since there is so great need for
the promotion of Religious Liberty throughout the world.
IV. Re: Prayer and Sacrifice for Righteous Victory and Just Peace:
Be it further resolved that, in the midst of these trying days, we
urge our people to continue in fervent prayer and personal sacrifice for
a righteous victory and a just and lasting peace.
V. Re: Plans for the Purchase of a Home for the Executive Secretary of the
Convention:
Regarding the special resolution looking toward the purchase of a
home for the General Secretary of the Convention, — be it further re-
solved (1) that — we look with favor upon the purpose of this resolution
and recommend that the Committee on Committees appoint a Com-
mittee of Seven, whose duty it shall be to investigate the purchase of a
home, if one can be secured at a reasonable price, or to investigate the
purchase of a lot upon which a home shall be erected after the war, if
this appears to be the wiser course; and (2) That this Committee shall
report its findings, actions and recommendations to the General Board,
or to the next Convention ; and that the General Board shall have the
power to determine the ways and means by which the funds are to be
secured to finance the undertaking, and to do all things necessary to
fulfill the intent of this resolution.
Respectfully submitted,
Committee on Resolutions,
Louis S. Gaines, Chairman;
Howard Ford,
J. B. Grice,
E. V. Hudson,
S. N. Lamb,
C. A. Rhyne,
Ronald E. Wall,
W. H. Weatherspoon,
Wilson Woodcock.
Nov. 18, 1943.
67. The next order was the election of the Convention President, a 1st
Vice President, a 2nd Vice President, and a 3rd Vice President.
For President : The following were nominated : Garland A. Hendricks,
Knightdale ; Hoyt Blackwell, Mars Hill ; Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem ;
R. K. Redwine, Mount Airy; C. H. Durham, Salisbury; J. W. Suttle, Shelby.
At this point Tom M. Freeman, Kenly, moved that the nominations be closed
and it was so ordered.
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Upon the balloting it was determined that neither of the nominees received
a majority vote, and in a final ballot upon Ralph A. Herring and Hoyt Black-
well, who had received the two highest votes, the convention elected Ralph A.
Herring.
For 1st Vice President : The following were nominated : Leslie H. Camp-
bell, Buie's Creek ; Perry Crouch, Fayetteville ; A. D. Kinnett, Burlington,
and W. H. Weatherspoon, Raleigh.
In the balloting it was determined that a second ballot was necessary to
elect a 1st Vice President, with Perry Crouch and W. H. Weatherspoon re-
ceiving the first and second highest votes respectively. Wm. Harrison Wil-
liams moved that the one receiving the highest number of votes be declared
the nominee and the Convention so voted.
For 2nd and 3rd Vice President : Without opposing nominations the Con-
vention quickly elected Claude F. Gaddy, Raleigh, 2nd Vice President, and J.
W. Kincheloe, Rocky Mount, 3rd Vice President.
68. With Joe Hamrick, Shelby, who relieved Director of Music Horace
Easom several times during the session, leading, the audience sang "In The
Cross."
69. A report on the work of the American Bible Society was presented
by Stuart McElroy, Secretary, Richmond, Virginia. The following report was
received as a matter of information.
REPORT FROM THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
Southern Baptists are taking a leading part in the essential task of
providing the Scriptures for mission work throughout the world, through
their greatly increased gifts to the American Bible Society for its mis-
sionary non-profit work of translation, publication and world-wide dis-
tribution of the Scriptures.
We are grateful for generous gifts from Baptists throughout the
South, during 1942 and 1943, which have helped us to
1. Supply Scriptures in many languages for mission work
around the globe, including Scriptures for the blind in systems
of raised letters which are read with the fingers.
2. Provide New Testaments for our Armed Forces, including
Testaments in waterproof containers for liferafts and lifeboats.
3. Send Scriptures in more than 30 languages for war prisoners
and refugees.
4. Prepare large quantities of Scriptures, in the languages of the
various countries, to be sent to Europe and Asia for imme-
diate post-war needs, before publication there can be resumed
to any extent.
When the closed doors of Europe and Asia swing open, as soon as
those lands are set free, Scriptures in many languages must be ready
for immediate shipment. While our Government sends food and other
relief supplies, Bible-loving Christians in America dare not fail to
send the Bread of Life to satisfy the hunger of men's souls.
Beyond the emergency requirements immediately at the close of the
war, almost unlimited Scripture needs can, even now, be clearly foreseen :
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(1) Mission Boards and their missionaries are emphasizing the abso-
lute necessity for greater distribution of the Bible because experience
has shown that widespread distribution of the Scriptures in the native
languages of the people serves as the advance agent and powerful ally
of all other forms of missionary work. In every missionary advance, the
Bible goes forward first.
(2) The heart hunger of the people has produced a great demand
for the Word of God in lands like Latin America, India, China and
Africa, as prejudice, opposition and indifference have broken down.
(3) Although three-fifths of the adult population of the world can-
not read, millions each year are being taught to read in lands that
have been blacked-out by illiteracy. This vastly increases the number
of potential readers of the Scriptures and likewise creates an obliga-
tion for us to supply them with the Word of God. For example,
Russia, with fully 90% of her people literate today, in contrast with
90% illiterate twenty-five years ago, has become a new nation of readers.
What an opportunity when Russia some day will reopen her doors to
the Bible!
Because these needs for increased Scripture distribution must be a
major factor in all plans for world-wide missionary advance after the
war, the American Bible Society looks to Southern Baptists, with grati-
tude and confidence, for an even greater measure of support.
70. Broadus E. Jones, Raleigh, who was presented for the closing message
on "Spiritual Foundations for the New World Order," came forward and
insisted that in view of the pressing matters of the morning session, and since
the time had fully expired he would not bring a message and , instead, re-
quested the audience to stand and following his prayer, the One Hundred
Thirteenth Annual Session adjourned.
I. G. Greer, President.
Charles B. Deane, Recording Secretary.
November 18, 1943.
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Note: We call attention to the fact that this list is made up from
reports received from the associational clerks, to which we add any we
may know about. We make this explanation because we realize that
there are perhaps many who have not been included in the list.
ADAMS, M. A Taylorsville
BAGWELL, JACK R Fairview
BROOKS, E. M New London
BURNS, FORD A Fuquay Springs
CAIN, A. T Concord
CULBRETH, H. C Rutherfordton
DAVIS, J. Autryville
EDWARDS, A. E Salemburg
FULGHUM, J. H Mocksville
HILDRETH, J. H Geneva, Ga.
HOOPER, M. L Speedwell
HUGGINS, J. W Fairmont
HUMPHREY, J. L Lumberton
JORDAN, WILLIAM Thomasville
LANIER, HARDY Stedman
LAWTON, WESLEY W., SR Ridgecrest
LONG, GEORGE Cove Creek
LONG, T. C Laurel Springs
McKAUGHAN, J. A Winston-Salem
MOORE, JOSEPH PETERSON Ridgecrest
NELSON, E. R Henderson
PARSON, JAMES Walsh
PEARCE, E. P., SR Hamlet
PRESSLEY, W. W Cary
SHORE, J. R Vilas
SIMPSON, T. M Etowah
SNYDER, S. G Thomasville
STUKENBROK, K. D Salisbury
TABOR, JOHN M Needmore
TRI VETT, G. W Vilas
WATTS, FINLEY C Purlear
WOODWARD, DAVID LEON Salisbury
PROGRAM
NORTH CAROLINA PASTOR'S CONFERENCE
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.
November 15, 1943
Bruce V. Hartsell, Franklinton, Song Leader
Monday Afternoon
2 :30 — Praise and Prayer W. G. Camp, Mooresboro
2 :4S — Announcements
2 :55— The Rural Church at Work J. C. Pipes, Asheville
3:15 — Music
3 :20 — Messages from Visiting Chaplains
3 :40 — The Rural Pastor at Work J. C. Canipe, Boone
4 :00 — The Present Situation of Our Rural Churches
Fon S. Scofield, Rolesville Church, Wake Forest
4:20— Some Observations of a Country Preacher R. T. Stancil, Garner
4:45— Adjourn
Monday Evening
7 :30 — Praise and Worship E. R. Stewart, Windsor
7 :40 — Business
7 :50— City Mission F. D. Hemphill, Durham
8:10 — Conference: The Place of the Rural Church in the Life of the South
Led by Garland A. Hendricks, Olive Chapel Church, Apex
9 :00 — Preaching in War Time J. B. Weatherspoon, Louisville, Ky.
Adjourn
J. L. Jenkins, Boiling Springs, President
W. C. Reed, Kinston, Vice President
J. Ned Taylor, Bessemer City, Secretary
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LIST OF MESSENGERS BY ASSOCIATIONS
ALLEGHANY (6)— G. R. Blackburn, Whitehead; John M. Cheek, Sparta; Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Fender, Whitehead; Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Joines, Sparta.
ALEXANDER (5) Jeffie Daniels, Charles E. Echerd, Taylorsville; Homer L. Good,
Stony Point; E. C. Shoe, A. E. Watts, Taylorsville.
ASHE (3)— R. C. Ashley, Bina; G. C. Burkett, Jefferson; M. D. Hart, Husk.
ATLANTIC (2)— A. L. Benton, Swansboro; John H. Bunn, Morehead City.
AVERY (2)— D. M. Edmisten, R. T. Teague, Newland.
BEULAH (8)— Mrs. Z. R .Clayton, Longhurst; L. V. Coggins, Semora; B. C. Lamb,
Route 4, Danville, Va. ; Mrs. F. W. Rogers, Roxboro; P. T. Worrell, Yanceyville; A.
F. Yarbrough, Milton; Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Hovis.
BLADEN (1)— R. J. Hall, Bladenboro.
BLUE RIDGE (8)— Jeta P. Baker, East Marion; B. F. Bray, Jr., R. I. Corbett, C. C.
Parker, W. C. Pate, Marion; L. G. Redding, R. L. Smith, D. C. Wesson, Old Fort.
BRUNSWICK (1)— A. L. Brown, Southport.
BRUSHY MOUNTAIN (5)— D. E. Elledge, North Wilkesboro; Howard J. Ford, J. F.
Jordan, Wilkesboro; John W. Kincheloe, Jr., North Wilkesboro; T. E. Story, Wilkes-
boro.
BUNCOMBE (25)— Jack R. Bagwell, Fairview; Willis Bennett, Oteen; C. R. Browning,
G. Carlton Cox, J. B. Grice, Asheville; Rev. and Mrs. R. P. Hamby, Swannanoa; M.
W. Hamrick, Asheville; William L. Hatcher, Ridgecrest; Ralph R. Hensley, Candler;
H. M. Hocutt, Biltmore; J. J. Johnson, Ridgecrest; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Johnson, H.
R. Logan, Asheville; Hight C. Moore, Ridgecrest; J. C. Pipes, Asheville; H. A. Quick,
Candler; Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Rogers, Asheville; Elizabeth Waite, Tom E. Walters,
Ridgecrest; Rev. and Mrs. J. N. Watson, Jackie Watson, Black Mountain.
BURNT SWAMP (4)— L. W. Jacobs, Roy W. Maynor, Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Under-
wood, Pembroke.
CABARRUS (27)— Mrs. W. H. Austin, S. D. Baker, Kannapolis; John H. Connell, J.
T. Davis, Concord; Rev. and Mrs. T. W. Fogleman, J. C. Gwaltney, Kannapolis; H.
F. Goodwin, Grady J. Haynes, C. E. Herrin, Concord; Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Hiatt,
Ann James, W. Walter Jones, Kannapolis; Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Nash, Concord; J.
C. Ray, E. C. Roach, David Robinette, Kannapolis; Z. W. Rotan, Concord; Mrs. M.
A. Snell, Harrisburg; T. H. Steen, E. S. Summers, Concord; Mr. and Mrs. William
Taylor, Newell; Rev. and Mrs. J. S. Tyson, Kannapolis.
CALDWELL (14)— Mrs. C. M. Abernethy, H. S. Benfield, Lenoir; R. B. Burnett, Hud-
son; Zeb A. Caudle, Lenoir; P. D. Fletcher, Granite Falls; Baine Harris, Hudson;
Ruth Keller, Granite Falls; Dr. and Mrs. O. R. Mangum, Lenoir; Cade Shaver, Hud-
son; J. M. Shaver, L. E. Snipes, Granite Falls; Edith Steele, Lenoir; S. A. Stroup,
Granite Falls.
CAROLINA (5)— B. G. Henry, Tryon; Charles W. Mainwaring, A. V. Reese, O. M.
Seigler, Hendersonville; E. M. Walker, Tuxedo.
CATAWBA RIVER (13)— C. A. Abernethy, Icard; Rev. and Mrs. John P. Crouch,
Valdese; Fred Forester, Drexel; Mrs. J. E. Fulton, Valdese; E. M. Hairfield, Rev. and
Mrs. Elbert F. Hardin, Carl Hemphill, M. L. Lewis, John D. McCready, Morganton;
W. L. McSwain, Glen Alpine; R. H. Weaver, Valdese.
CENTRAL (39)— Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Baucom, Sr., Olin T. Binkley, S. W. Brewer,
Wake Forest; T. W. Brewer, L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Carroll,
Wake Forest; H. E. Cherry, John L. Coley, Raleigh; J. Allen Easley, Wake Forest;
Mrs. J. S. Farmer, G. H. Ferguson, Raleigh; Bruce V. Hartsell, Franklinton; H. A.
Helms, M. A. Huggins, Raleigh; A. W. Icard, C. J. Jackson, Wake Forest; Mrs. D.
R. Jackson, Donald R. Jackson, Jr., Raleigh; T. H. King, Thurman Kitchin, Wake
Forest; E. L. Layfield, LeRoy Martin, Mr. and Mrs. W. Reid Martin, Margie Murchi-
son, Raleigh; Eugene Olive, G. W. Paschal, Ernest P. Russell, Fon H. Scofield, Jr.,
Wake Forest; D. F. Stamps, Rev. and Mrs. Carl M. Townsend, Raleigh; Rev. and
Mrs. M. M. Turner, Zebulon; Mr. and Mrs. B. Y. Tyner, W. H. Weatherspoon,
Raleigh.
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CHOWAN (20) — Annie Hope Blanchard, Hobbsville; D. Palmer Brooks, Elizabeth; Rev.
and Mrs. J. T. Byrum, W. F. Cale, Jr., Tyner; Howard G. Dawkins, Hertford; W. I.
Johnson, Elizabeth City; J. T. Lennon, Swan Quarter; Mrs. W. T. Love, Elizabeth
City; Rev. and Mrs. Herbert P. Miller, Sunbury; Eloise Miller, Mrs. D. H. Parnell,
Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Potts, W. R. Stephens, Ronald E. Wall, Elizabeth City; Charles
B. Williams, Shiloh; Rev. and Mrs. S. B. Wilson, Creswell.
COLUMBUS (9)— Winfrey Davis, Tabor City; Elbert N. Johnson, Fair Bluff; Rev. and
Mrs. S. N. Lamb, Whiteville; Rev. and Mrs. G. Carl Lewis, Chadbourn; R. J. Ras-
berry, Hallsboro; G. M. Singletary, Cerro Gordo; J. B. Wyche, Hallsboro.
EASTERN (11) — T. N. Cooper, Calypso; C. H. Hornsby, Clinton; Mack Herring, Mount
Olive; L. L. Johnson, Magnolia; J. L. Jones, Rose Hill; Geo. M. Kelley, Magnolia;
Donald G. Myers, Mount Olive; Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Sessoms, Magnolia; G. Nan
Stephens, Warsaw; Edward A. Walker, Clinton.
ELKIN (4)— Miss Addie Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. James, E. G. Jordan, Elkin.
FLAT RIVER (4)— M. L. Bannister, B. D. Bunn, W. D. Poe, Oxford; J. Marshall
Walk», Stovall.
FRENCH BROAD (8) — Hoyt Blackwell, J. J. Buckner, Dr. and Mrs. Walt N. Johnson,
M. H. Kendall, Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Moore, Frank Rogers, Mars Hill.
GASTON (35) — M. L. Barnes, O. H. Bolch, Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Bowers, Rev. and Mrs.
Charles P. Burchette, Jr., Gastonia; Rev. and Mrs. E. J. Caldwell, North Belmont;
L. S. Clark, Mount Holly; Mr. and Mrs. Hubert M. Craig, Stanley; Rev. and Mrs.
L. M. Dixon, Gastonia; Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Elliott, Cherryville; P. A. Hicks, Bel-
mont; W. Arthur Hoffman, Gastonia; E. V. Hudson, Cramerton; Hubert Huggins,
Dallas; John W. Hughston, Jr., Belmont; A. W. Kincaid, Bessemer City; A. V. Led-
ford, W. A. Loudermilk, Gastonia; J. D. McAllester, Dallas; L. A. McClure, Alexis;
Floyd J. Noblett, Bessemer City; C. E. Phillips, Gastonia; Mrs. Dorothy Rhine-
hardt, Belmont; M. T. Saunders, Bessemer City; Ernest M. Smith, McAdenville; J.
A. Snow, Stanley; Loy Stroupe, Cherryville; Rev. and Mrs. J. Ned Taylor, Bessemer
City; J. L. Vipperman, Dallas.
GREEN RIVER (4)— L. P. Barnette, Union Mills; Charles A. Griffith, Columbus; James
W. Ray, Spindale; C. N. Royal, Rutherfordton.
HAYWOOD (14)— Rev. and Mrs. James H. Christie, Lysbeth Cox, Rev. and Mrs. H. G.
Hammett, S. Madge Lewis, Waynesville; Dr. and Mrs. H. K. Masteller, Canton; Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Morgan, Waynesville; Rev. and Mrs. T. H. Parris, Clyde; C. R.
Upton, Canton; H. C. Wilburn, Waynesville.
JOHNSTON (14)— E. Y. Averett, Benson; F. H. Brooks, Smithfield; G. McLeod Bryan,
Garner; E. G. Caudill, Smithfield; W. S. Caudle, Route 2, Raleigh; Durward Creech,
Dewey B. Dupree, Smithfield; Tom M. Freeman, Selma; C. L. Gillespie, Smithfield;
Mrs. B. A. Hocutt, Clayton; Robert P. Holding, A. C. McCall, Smithfield; H. E.
Mitchiner, Wilson Mills; Eph Whisenhunt, Clayton.
KINGS MOUNTAIN (21)— B. F. Austin, Kings Mountain; W. P. Biggerstaff, Jesse
Blalock, O. B. Bridges, D. Boyd Cannon, Shelby; J. W. Costner, Lawndale; Horace
Easom, W. A. Elam, Shelby; P. L. Elliott, Boiling Springs; Hugh F. Harrill, Latti-
more; J. L. Jenkins, Boiling Springs; D. E. McCraw, O. M. Mull, Shelby; L. J.
Rainey, Grover; Lawrence Roberts, Shelby; Rev. and Mrs. A. G. Sargent, Kings
Mountain; Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Suttle, Shelby; Lula Mae Teague, Kings Mountain;
Zeno Wall, Shelby.
LIBERTY (55)— C. B. Atkinson, Erlanger; Mrs. Beamer H. Barnes, Thomasville; W.
H. Beck, Lexington; Tom W. Bray, Zelma Clinard, J. A. Cox, Thomasville; Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Craver, Lexington; Thomas B. Flowe, Mrs. I. P. Frazier, Thomasville;
Dr. and Mrs. Louis S. Gaines, Lexington; Mrs. R. S. Green, Mr. and Mrs. I. G.
Greer, Thomasville; Ila L. Hensley, F. G. Johnson, Lexington; Mrs. Thomas Melton
Jones, Thomasville; Mrs. Irene Justice, Lexington; R. L. Kizer, Thomasville; Mrs.
W. J. Lancaster, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lane, Lexington; W. H. Lomax, Linwood;
F. A. Maier, Thomasville; L. A. Martin, Lexington; Rev. and Mrs. L. J. Matthews,
Route 5, Winston-Salem; B. A. Mitchell, Kemersville; Sallie L. McCracken, W. K.
McGee, Mr. and Mrs. John Arch McMillan, Louise McMillan, Thomasville; Clarence
F. Moore, Mrs. Laura Moore, Route 2, High Point; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Morgan,
John Murphies, H. C. Myers, Lexington; T. H. Small, Thomasville; Mr. and Mrs.
Maskey M. Smith, Route 6, Winston-Salem; Mrs. W. A. Smith, Lexington; J. A.
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Neilson, Thomasville; Charles R. Sharpe, Sam J. Smith, Lexington; Rev. and Mrs.
H. M. Stroup, Denton; L. E. Teague, Thomasville; Nolan Teague, Rev. and Mrs.
N. C. Teague, C. M. Wall, Charles S. Young, Lexington.
LITTLE RIVER (16)— Laurie J. Atkinson, Lillington; Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Bain, Dunn;
Leslie H. Campbell, Buie's Creek; Lilian Draughan, T. H. Finch, Dunn; Charles B.
Howard, Buie's Creek; Sam F. Hudson, Lillington; E. C. Keller, Dunn; R. V. McNull,
Broadway; Forest Maxwell, Erwin; S. L. Morgan, Jr., Dunn; C. E. Ruffin, Broadway;
J. A. Tumblin, Buie's Creek; Rev. and Mrs. Harry D. Wood, Jr., Angier.
MACON (7)— H. M. Alley, Highlands; Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Benfield, Rev. and Mrs. J.
F. Marchman, C. C. Welch, Franklin; Robert Williams, Dillard, Ga.
MECKLENBURG (40)— C. R. Austin, David E. Bobbitt, S. K. Brazil, T. P. Christmas,
Paul E. Crandall, F. E. Dabney, Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Dawson, J. W. Digh, Char-
lotte; Rev. and Mrs. R. Love Dixon, Huntersville; Paul K. Drum, Cornelius; Oscar
Funderburke, Paw Creek; E. W. Haight, George D. Heaton, George L. Hocutt, John
R. Knott, W. W. Lawton, Jr., Mrs. F. D. Lethco, Luther Little, E. T. Martin, Mrs.
John P. Motsinger, J. Lloyd Mauney, J. D. Moose, Charlotte; Hubert S. "Mumford,
Matthews; M. G. Perry, Mrs. Charles R. Price, C. W. Propst, Charlotte; R. D. Rig-
gins, Derita; Fred C. Roberts, Mrs. E. Banks Ross, E. L. Spivey, Charlotte; Rev. and
Mrs. M. W. Stallings, Davidson; W. A. Stephenson, Preston S. Vann, Dr. and Mrs.
Wm. Harrison Williams, A. B. Wood, J. Clyde Yates, Charlotte.
MITCHELL (2) W. T. Baucom, E. F. Watson, Spruce Pine.
MONTGOMERY (2)— Charles E. Stevens, Mount Gilead; Charles B. Trammel, Troy.
MOUNT ZION (SO)— W. C. Adkinson, Swepsonville; Rev. and Mrs. Henry B. Ander-
son, Durham; Mrs. R. H. Andrews, Burlington; Ernest W. Bailes, Durham; Das
Kelley Barnett, Chapel Hill; C. E. Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Byrd, Durham; N. A.
Catlett, Cary; Mr. and Mrs. K. B. Cole, Carrboro; Trela D. Collins, Durham; R. P.
Ellington, Graham; Mrs. Justice Haswell, Mrs. C. L. Haywood, F. D. Hemphill,
Durham; Garland A. Hendricks, Apex; Charles F. Hudson, J. M. Johnson, J. Samuel
Johnson, Rev. and Mrs. Charles Jollay, Durham; Rev. and Mrs. A. D. Kinnett, Bur-
lington; Rev. and Mrs. John H. Knight, Mebane; J. H. Lackey, Alamance; Frank H.
Marshall, B. E. Morris, Durham; Luther A. Nail, Burlington; J. Winston Pearce,
Dr. and Mrs. D. R. Perry, H. W. Pickett, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Poe, Durham; Mrs.
J. R. Poindexter, Burlington; J. H. Rich, Chapel Hill; Elizabeth Riggs, Durham;
Mrs. J. E. Sharpe, Hillsboro; M. D. Smith, Haw River; W. E. Stanley, Durham;
Rev. and Mrs. A. P. Stephens, Burlington; Z. B. Teel, Mildred Thomas, Durham;
J. H. Waugh, Jr., Burlington; John T. Wayland, Mrs. R. B. Wilkins, Durham.
NEUSE (9)— A. B. Alderman, Snow Hill; Talmage C. Johnson, Rev. and Mrs. W. C.
Reed, Kinston; Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Smith, Chaplain and Mrs. Joe Woodson, Goldsboro.
NEW SOUTH RIVER (12)— Delmer C. Blalock, E. B. Booker, M. W. Chapman, Rev.
and Mrs. W. Perry Crouch, Waldo D. Early, G. C. Hamrick, Mary Humphrey, John
A. Oates, Rev. and Mrs. Edwin F. Perry, E. N. Teague, Fayetteville.
PEE DEE (IS) — Bruce Benton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Deane, Rockingham; Rev. and
Mrs. R. A. Ellis, Wadesboro; Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gore, T. W. Hearne, Rockingham;
O. W. McManus, Gibson; J. C. Meigs, Pageland, S. C. ; Rev. and Mrs. Frank R.
Moore, Ellerbe; Rev. and Mrs. James B. Turner, Laurinburg; J. B. Willis, Hamlet.
PIEDMONT (73)— J. M. Allred, Pomona; J. H. Boles, High Point; Phila M. Ballard,
Greensboro; Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Barker, High Point; Mrs. J. Carl Bell, L. Grady
Burgiss, Greensboro; Mrs. W. O. Burnham, Mrs. W. F. Clayton, High Point; J. B.
Clifton, Greensboro; C. G. Coe, Pomona; J. H. Collins, Greensboro; A. B. Conrad,
Mrs. C. E. Crissman, High Point; J. Huber Dixon, Pleasant Garden; Albert H.
Duning, High Point; J. Ben Eller, Greensboro; C. M. Floyd, Thomasville; Mrs. E.
R. Fruitt, Greensboro; Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Gillespie, Ruth Gosney, Reidsville; Rev.
and Mrs. Ray W. Harrington, Rev. and Mrs. C. S. Hodge, Mrs. Nettie Hoge, Greens-
boro; Rev. and Mrs. Julien S. Hopkins, Rev. and Mrs. Irby B. Jackson, Rev. and
Mrs. R. R. Jackson, High Point; Wade H. James, Mrs. W. C. Kanoy, Fred Koerber,
Greensboro; G. G Lanter, Winston-Salem; Mrs. O. E. Lee, Greensboro; A. C. Love-
lace, High Point; Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Martin, Mrs. R. A. Matheson, Greensboro;
Hughey O. Miller, High Point; Mrs. F. S. Miles, Chaplain and Mrs. O. Floyd Mont-
gomery, A. L. McGee, Greensboro; C. M. Oates, Pomona; D. W. Overby, Reidsville:
Thelma Patrick, High Point; Mrs. J. P. Pugh, Mrs. J. N. Reele, Greensboro; Lee
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Roach, Guilford College; T. L. Sasser, Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Saunders, Greensboro;
Richard R. Saunders, Reidsville; Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Scott, Mrs. Charles E. Siceloff,
R. L. Smith, W. L. Smith, Roger Snipes, Rev. and Mrs. J, T. Swinson, High Point;
Dr. and Mrs. J. Clyde Turner, Mrs. Stafford Webb, Greensboro; Dr. and Mrs. Howard
L. Weeks, Reidsville; James E. Wiggs, Greensboro; Mrs. Nash Wilkins, Reidsville;
Wilson Woodcock, Greensboro.
PILOT MOUNTAIN (58)— Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Adams, Winston-Salem; C. M. Beach,
Leaksville; Ray Billings, Winston-Salem; Willard A. Brown, Madison; Rev. and Mrs.
Guy S. Cain, Rural Hall; Rev. and Mrs. Avery M. Church, L. L. Coats, Mrs. John
H. Cornelius, J. M. Current, E. L. Davis, Sr., Mrs. J. Neal Davis, Winston-Salem;
J. P. Davis, Leaksville; Mrs. C. W. Davis, Winston-Salem; Robert C. Foster, Leaks-
ville; C. W. Glosson, Kernersville; Smith Hagaman, Winston-Salem; Rev. and Mrs.
L. C. Hall, Mayodan; Mrs. R. W. Hampton, Rev. and Mrs. James M. Hayes, Ralph A.
Herring, Winston-Salem; Ronald D. Hicks, Germanton; J. Guy Hopkins, Draper; T.
C. Keaton, Mrs. Linton J. Keith, Winston-Salem; J. E. Kirk, Lewisville; J. A. Kirk-
man, T. S. Lawrence, Winston-Salem; E. A. Long, Germanton; M. E. Manuel, Rev.
and Mrs. B. K. Mason, Santford Martin, Marshall L. Mott, C. E. Parker, Mrs. J.
J. Roddick, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Mallie Scott, Walnut Cove; Rev. and Mrs. V. W.
Sears, Rural Hall; Richard Smith, Draper; Herbert M. Stokes, Winston-Salem; Rev.
and Mrs. M. C. Swicegood, Clemmons; James E. Swinson, Hanes; Burley S. Turner,
Otis E. Tucker, W. D. Turner, Carey B. Taylor, Winston-Salem; C. V. Tyner, Mrs.
P. E. White, Leaksville; D. H. Wilcox, Winston-Salem; Mary Wise, Clemmons; L.
B. Womble, Roy V. Young, Winston- Salem.
RALEIGH (27)— Kathryn Abee, M. O. Alexander, Mrs. Ford A. Burns, Carlyle Camp-
bell, Mr. and Mrs. Z. M. Caveness, Mary Currin, Raleigh; Mrs. Delia P. Daughtry,
Fuquay Springs; L. E. M. Freeman, Raleigh; Rev. and Mrs. C. O. Greene, Cary;
Rev. and Mrs. George J. Griffin, Raleigh; Albert S. Lamm, Wake Forest; John R. Link,
Apex; F. Orion Mixon, L. L. Morgan, Raleigh; J. Gray Murray, Cary; Rev. and Mrs.
S. A. Rhyne, Lillington; Lee C. Sheppard, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Simms, Sr., Mar-
garet Sparks, Raleigh; Rev. and Mrs. Ryburn T. Stancil, Garner; G. W. Stevens,
Raleigh.
RANDOLPH (10)— Mrs. Erman S. Cox, Mrs. Gerald K. Ford, R. E. Hiatt, Mrs. J. R.
Hill, Mrs. E. S. Millsaps, Asheboro; C. L. Moffitt, Ramseur; Rev. and Mrs. Bruce H.
Price, Asheboro; S. L. Riddle, Randleman; Mrs. D. C. Scott, Asheboro.
ROANOKE (36)— Mrs. Frank Armstrong, Sr., Nashville; Clyde E. Baucom, Wilson; R.
O. Bennett, Jr., Wake Forest; G. W. Bullard, RockyMount; R. A. Cadle, Enfield;
A. Hartwell Campbell, Greenville; E. C. Chamblee, Farmville; S. V. T. Chamblee,
Nashville; Edward G. Cole, Winterville; John T. Coley, Rocky Mount; R. L. Collins,
Wilson; R. L. Councilman, G. N. Cowan, Rocky Mount; Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Craw-
ford, Lynda Jean Crawford, Hobgood; George W. Davis. Farmville; Benjamin C.
Fisher, Nashville; W. E. Goode, Scotland Neck; Harry C. Hand, Whitakers; Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Holmes, Farmville; M. M. Johnson, Spring Hope; Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Jordan, Nashville; Roy D. Keller, Fountain; J. W. Kincheloe, Sr., Raymond Clyde
Lanier, H. C. Lowder, Rocky Mount; Lee A. Phillips, Plymouth; Alfred L. Pollock,
Red Oak; Charles J. Shields, Scotland Neck; Bennett Stone, Nashville; Rev. and
Mrs. J. V. Watterson, Stantonsburg; R. L. Wilson, Ayden.
ROBESON (16)— E. F. Baker, J. Glenn Blackburn, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Durham, Lum-
berton; J. M. Gibbs, Parkton; R. A. Hedgepeth, Lumberton; C. P. Herring, Fairmont;
C. R. Hester, Edna Porter, Saint Pauls; Troy Jones, Red Springs; Rev. and Mrs.
W. Earl Robinson, R. S. Sessoms, Saint Pauls; Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Whisnant,
Raeford.
ROWAN (22) — Rev. and Mrs. Smoot Baker, Spencer; Rev. and Mrs. Milton L. Braun,
Salisbury; R. O. Brinkley, Spencer; Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Davis, Mrs. Tom Goggin,
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Hasty, R. N. Huneycutt, Salisbury; Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Kiser,
Concord; D. H. Lowder, C. R. Myers, Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Rhyne, Salisbury; W. A.
Roberts, J. T. Sisk, China Grove; Mrs. J. E. Smith, W. D. Williamson, Myrtle H.
Zentmeyer.
SANDY CREEK (17)— Rev. and Mrs. K. E. Bryant, Pittsboro; Mrs. Colin Churchill,
V. M. Dorsett, Alfred F. Gibson, Siler City; George M. Graham, Olivia; W. H.
Griffin, Victor R. Johnson, Pittsboro; Roy A. Morris, Sanford; Carl Lee Ousley, Mr.
and Mrs. R. F. Paschal, Siler City; J. F. Stegall, Jonesboro; Clyde P. Stimson,
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Goldston; Rev. and Mrs. J. Fred Stimson, Southern Pines; Walter L. Warfford,
Carthage.
SANDY RUN (15)— L. V. Bradley, Jr., Henrietta; W. G. Camp, Mooresboro; F. T.
Collins, Forest City; B. A. Cooper, Spindale; W. R. Grigg, Caroleen; Fred H. Doty,
Ellenboro; Rev. and Mrs. J. L. McCIuney, Henrietta; A. M. Martin; Ellenboro; C.
C. Matheny, Forest City; Joe Parsons, Spindale; R. A. Pate, Bostic; W. H. Poin-
dexter, Gaffney, S. C; W. V. Tarlton, Cliffside; E. P. White, Rutherfordton.
SOUTH FORK (23)— R. Knolan Benfield, Hickory; Rev. and Mrs. Yancey C. Elliott,
Lincolnton; Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Frances, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Hatfield, Charles C.
Holland, W. C. Laney, Hickory; Bruce B. Littleton, Lincolnton; Hoyle Love, Newton;
R. G. Mace, Catawba; Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Myers, Newton; Robert M. Perry, J.
Louis Price, Thomas P. Pruitt, Hickory; W. W. Rimmer, Lincolnton; R. C. Shearin,
E. F. Sullivan, Hickory; Rev. and Mrs. O. S. Ulmer, Newton; A. R. Waters, Catawba.
SOUTH MOUNTAIN (1)— O. S. Long, Casar.
SOUTH YADKIN (28)— Victor L. Andrews, Mocksville; Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Baucom,
Jr., H. G. Bryant, Statesville; W. M. Byers, Troutman; J. B. Cain, Cana; Eugene
Deese, Troutman; Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Dodd, Mrs. J. H. Fulghum, Mocksville;
Harry Y. Gamble, Statesville; E. B. Hicks, Harmony; Rev. and Mrs. R. Von King,
H. Fletcher Lambert, Hugh McElrath, Statesville; S. P. Orders, Mooresville; Mrs.
J. E. Owings, Mocksville; G. L. Royster, Colleemee; W. G. Russell, Mooresville;
Jacob Stewart, Mocksville; Rev. and Mrs. A. T. Stoudenmire, Cleveland; Frank
Tatum, Cooleemee; Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Turner, Mocksville; Charles H. Utley, Cana.
STANLY (14)— L. P. Beck, Badin; J. N. Blalock, Norwood; W. J. Bradley, Albemarle;
L. Vernon Connell, Concord; Rev. and Mrs. L. W. Fields, Norwood; Rev. and Mrs.
C. R. Hinton, W. A. Hough, Norwood; L. D. Munn, Badin; D. J. Robinson, New
London; W. J. Russell, J. A. Seymour, Julius W. Whitley, Albemarle.
SURRY (11) — Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bray, Lonnie A. Fleming, Willa B. Marks, Rev. and
Mrs. C. E. Otey, Rev. and Mrs. R. K. Redwine, Mount Airy; Rev. and Mrs. J. F.
Sellers, White Plains; C. A. Simmons, Mount Airy.
TAR RIVER (9)— J. Edward Allen, Warrenton; A. Paul Bagby, Louisburg; R. E.
Brickhouse, Warrenton; Rex R. Campbell, Louisburg; E. W. Greene, Morton Miles,
Jr., Henderson; C. B. Peacock, Castalia; Rev. and Mrs. Albert E. Simms, Littleton.
TENNESSEE RIVER (1)— William H. Covert, Bryson City.
THREE FORKS (10)— Mrs. E. A. Baucom, Blowing Rock; Wade E. Brown, J. C.
. Canipe, Boone; Mrs. T. H. Coffey, Sr., Blowing Rock; R. C. Eggers, Zionville; Rev.
and Mrs. G. A. Hamby, Balm; Louise Green, Boone; Mrs. Lloyd Robbins, J. H.
Winkler, Blowing Rock.
TRANSYLVANIA (2)— S. F. McAuley, W. H. Whitlock, Brevard.
TUCKASEIGEE (6)— B. S. Hensley, Sylva; H. T. Hunter, Cullowhee; Gretchen John-
son, Magnolia; Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Pettit, Sylva; W. H. Smith, East La Port.
UNION (10)— C. C. Burris, Wingate; W. B. Carr, Marshville; Joel C. Herrin, Wingate;
Rev. N. S. Joyner, Waxhaw'; Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Link, Jr., J. M. Pickler, Wingate;
M. L. Ross, Concord; Lloyd W. Teague, Camp Sutton; Percy B. Upchurch, Monroe.
WEST CHOWAN (6)— Rev. and Mrs. J. Wade Baker, Rich Square; Oscar Creech,
Ahoskie; Rev. and Mrs. John E. Lanier, Winton; Elliot R. Stewart, Windsor.
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA (5)— R. Lane Akins, Hayesville; J. C. Ammons, A.
B. Cash, Peyton G. Ivie, Murphy; L. P. Smith, Andrews.
WILMINGTON (21)— C. E. Baker, Sankey L. Blanton, Earle L. Bradley, Rev. and
Mrs. James H. Butler, J. Roy Clifford, Wilmington; Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Dosher,
Kelly; Rev. and Mrs. J. N. Evans, Jr., Wallace; Ira D. Ferrell, W. C. Francis, Vivian
Grant, Wilmington; Lewis E. Ludlum, Carolina Beach; Mrs. W. I. Morgan, Wilming-
ton; Pat Murphy, Jr., Wallace; L. C. Pinnix, Rev. and Mrs. David K. Shelton,
Jacksonville; E. G. VanLandingham, Carolina Beach; J. O. Walton, Wilmington.
YADKIN (7)— J. G. Allgood, Yadkinville; Mrs. W. E. Brooks, Mrs. Paul P. Davis,
Yadkinville; Paul Forsythe, G. H. Hudler, Mrs. O. C. Motsinger, Mrs. C. R. Transou,
Boonville.
YANCEY (4)— J. H. Black, Windom; Laura Mae Hilliard, A. Z. Jamerson, Burnsville;
Ben Lee Ray, Pensacola.
Total Messengers: 952.
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VISITORS (201) — Carolyn Allred, Mrs. J. M. Allred, Pomona; Mrs. J. B. Armstrong,
Winston-Salem; Mrs. F. M. Autry, High Point; Mrs. J. M. Barbee, Mrs. Robert
Barbee, Greensboro; Clifford Barratt, Greenwood, S. C; J. I. Bishop, Birmingham, Ala.;
S. C. Blackburn, Keystone, W. Va.; Mrs. Louise L. Blake, Thomasville; Edward M.
Bostick, Jr., Saluda; Daisie B. Bowers, Littleton; Mrs. C. N. Bray, Siler City; O. B.
Bridges, Shelby; Mrs. W. M. Byers, Troutman; Mrs. L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh; Cora
Lee Cannon, Durham; M. L. Carr, Floyd F. Carter, Mrs. Jesse Carter, Winston-Salem;
M. J. Clarke, Fayetteville; Mrs. Walter E. Clark, Asheville; Bernie Clodfelter, Winston-
Salem; Mrs. R. I. Corbett, Marion; R. M. Corn, Asheville; Mrs. Robert M. Cornette,
Norfolk, Va. ; Erman S. Cox, Asheboro; M. L. Craver, Welcome; Elva Creech, Mrs.
Oscar Creech, Ahoskie; Mrs. Ed Crisco, High Point; C. C. Crow, Shelby; Mrs. S. B.
Crump, Thomasville; G. D. Danner, Chatham, Va. ; E. L. Davis, Jr., Winston-Salem;
Mrs. George W. Davis, Farmville; Mrs. R. T. Davis, Winston-Salem; William H. Davis,
Hendersonville; Mrs. Howard G. Dawkins, Hertford; Mrs. Lula Doggett, W. W. Dog-
gett, Summerfield; Hattie Edwards, Thomasville; James L. Elder, Camp Mackall; Mary
Lee Ernest, Greenville; Mrs. C. J. Essex, Winston-Salem; Hubert L. Evans, Jonesville;
C. W. Flowers, Angier; Thomas D. Flynn, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Howard J. Ford,
Wilkesboro; Mrs. C. D. Foster, Greensboro; A. D. Frazier, Red Oak; C. C. Freeman,
Thomasville; Claude F. Gaddy, Raleigh; Mrs. R. R. Garvey, Winston-Salem; Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Gilliam, Jonesville; Mrs. W. E. Goode, Scotland Neck; Lt. and Mrs.
John W. Gore, Winston-Salem; Mrs. E. M. Greene, Jr., Clyde; Mae Grimmer,
Raleigh; Luther B. Grice, Chicago, 111.; Mrs. Smith Hagaman, Winston-Salem; Bettie
Hamilton, Thomasville; V. H. Harrell, Winston-Salem; W. B. Harrington, William-
ston; Mrs. L. R. Harrill, Raleigh; Mrs. D. S. Hayworth, High Point; J. N. Hare,
Apex; Minnie Hayworth, High Point; Mrs. Roy Hayworth, Kernersville; E. B. Hicks,
Harmony; Mrs. S. A. Helms, Greensboro; J. Alex Herring, Greenville, S. C.J Jesse
H. Hill, Salisbury; Mrs. Sophia Holder, Merry Hill; Thomas C. Holland, Camp
Butner; Mrs. M. A. Huggins, Raleigh; Mary L. Huggins, Winston-Salem; Mrs. R.
N. Hunneycutt, Salisbury; W. Wilbur Hutchins, Raleigh; Clotile James, Winston-
Salem; L. D. Johnson, Danville, Va.; Mrs. Victor R. Johnson, Pittsboro; John H.
Jones, Charlotte; May Belle Jones, Spencer; Max Keith, Moody, Mo.; Mrs. J. M.
Kesler, Winston-Salem; W. H. Kimball, Henderson; Mrs. E. S. King, Winston-
Salem; H. V. Kinney, Lexington; Mrs. J. E. Kirk, Lewisville; Mrs. Fred Koerben,
Greensboro; Beulah Lanning, Lexington; Mrs. W. Ray Lashley, Pittsboro; Mrs. H. T.
Lawrence, Apex; L. K. Lazenby, States ville; R. Cole Lee, Greensboro; Mrs. D. E.
Lehman, Winston-Salem; Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Lennon, Wake Forest; Raymond Long,
Elgin Field, Fla.; Mrs. H. T. Lowery, Mrs. G. T. Lumpkin, Winston-Salem; A. E.
Lynch, Buie's Creek; William W. Lynes, Lenoir; I. Stuart McElroy, Richmond, Va.;
Mrs. Eugene McLartz, Greensboro; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McLendon, Lexington; E. L.
Melton, Winston-Salem; E. W. Milner, Fort Bragg; J. W. Marshall, Richmond, Va.;
Mrs. E. A. Massey, Harmony; W. D. Maynor, Pembroke; Cleo Mitchell, Raleigh;
Mrs. O. A. Moore, Scotland Neck; E. H. Moore, Greensboro; Mrs. L. B. Moore,
Kernersville; Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Moore, Raleigh; Mrs. C. W. Mosley, Greensboro;
Phyllis Anne Myers, Newton; Mrs. R. M. Oakley, Danville, Va.; B. R. Page, Boone;
Mrs. J. L. Page, Asheville; Mrs. H. W. Pickett, Durham; Mrs. Lena Poe, Ahoskie;
Mrs. Allie E. Page, Winston-Salem; F. N. Pressly, Asheville; Mrs. P. H. Raines,
Greensboro; M. F. Reavis, Yadkinville; J. Hampton Rich, Chapel Hill; Sallie
Rigsbee, Durham; Mrs. D. J. Robinson, New London; E. J. Rogers, Gretna, Va.;
Mrs. James K. Ray, Spindale; Mrs. Ed Saine, Cherryville; Mrs. Richard R. Saunders,
Reidsville; C. F. Settlemyre, Central Falls; Mrs. Sharp, Hillsboro; Sara Jane Shaw,
Pisgah; Mrs. Sadie Shoaf, Winston-Salem; Mrs. W. S. Simmons, Greensboro; Mr.
and Mrs. C. S. Smith, Elizabethton, Tenn.; Mrs. Robert M. Smith, Mount Airy; Texie
Sowers, Churchland; Mrs. Ben L. Spence, Greensboro; Mrs. David Strider, Ashe-
boro; Mrs. E. C. Sutton, Greensboro; Mrs. James E. Swinson, Hanes; Mrs. J. C.
Tatem, Reidsville; Mrs. L. E. Teague, Thomasville; Marjorie Thompson, Spencer;
Mrs. G. N. Tinsley, Winston-Salem; G. M. Turner, Danville, Va.; J. W. Turtle,
Wallburg; Mrs. C. V. Tyner, Leaksville; Mrs. Charles H. Utley, Cana; C. H. Walker,
Greensboro; J. C. Watkins, Winston-Salem; Mrs. D. C. Wesson, Nancy Ruth Wesson,
Old Fort; E. C. White, Jr., Greensboro; Pauline L. Whitley, Raleigh; J. H. Wiley,
Shanghai, China; Mrs. Carl Williams, Danville, Va.; Mrs. P. P. Wilson, Leaksville;
Mrs. F. J. Wishon, Winston-Salem; Roy Young, Salisbury.
Total Messengers and Visitors: 1,163.
REPORT OF
THE GENERAL BOARD
71.
REPORT OF THE GENERAL BOARD
To the one hundred and thirteenth session of the Baptist State Convention
the General Board presents its report, and in doing so records gratitude to
God and thanks to the Baptist people of the State.
The Board believes that on the whole this report is the most encouraging
that has been presented to the Convention in many years. As will appear
later, the Board is able to report a far larger income, and what is more
important a more progressive program carried on throughout the State.
72.
THE YEAR 1943
In these opening paragraphs of the report it is our purpose to point out
some of the larger things that have been happening. Elsewhere in the report
these matters will be dealt with more specifically.
1. In the report of the auditor, which appears later, one will observe that
substantial financial gains have been made. Our income for the present year
will be, if the present trend continues, about 30% above that of last year.
Last year, it will be recalled, we reported a gain of about 30% over the
preceding year; and in 1941 the gain was some 20% over 1940. The report
for 1940 showed a total income for all Convention objects, State and South-
wide, or $707,000. The Convention's income for 1943 will double that amount.
Last year our income was $1,100,000. This year it will go, apparently, to
$1,400,000.
2. The program of activities now being sponsored by the workers of the
General Board will reach during the present year a total of some 800
churches. This program is providing a week of teaching, or an evangelistic
meeting, usually continuing for ten days, in these 800 churches. Thus our
Convention forces will be enabled to reach almost all of our 2,609 churches
with such a program in a three-year period.
3. The effort to build the chapel at Wake Forest has been continued and
the income for this purpose is larger than for 1942, although it has been
somewhat disappointing. The Rev. W. H. Moore, who came with the Board
in July 1942, has continued his faithful efforts in assisting the General Secre-
tary in securing funds for the completion of the chapel. About a year ago a
part of the project, the Music and Religion Building, was completed. Since
that time it has been in use by the Army Finance School, and has helped
greatly in enabling Wake Forest to meet its obligations. This is especially
true because the income from regular students has been greatly reduced. The
main chapel building has been housed in, and at this writing the steeple is
just about completed. We have needed money to carry on the work, and the
needs have been larger than the income. Accordingly the Executive Committee
has borrowed some money with which to continue the work. Several months
ago it became apparent that the only practical thing to do was to go ahead
and house in the building. It cannot be used, of course, until it is completed
inside, but the appearance of this magnificent structure, with its spire some
two hundred feet above the floor of the main auditorium adds much to the
Wake Forest campus. The Convention has set its hands to the building of
this chapel for the college, and we must pursue the task until it is completed.
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Many churches placed something in their 1943 budgets for the chapel, and a
greater number will place some amount in their budgets for 1944. Appeals
continue to be made to individuals who made pledges to complete their pay-
ments, and to those who did not pledge to make a generous donation so that
the money borrowed may be repaid and the building completed.
4. The debts of the Convention are now being rapidly reduced. On October
31 we will owe on the original big educational debt of the Convention a
balance of $244,500: On the Hospital debt assumed by the Convention we will
owe on October 31 a balance of $68,000, this in addition to a balance of some
$24,000 on the original loan in 1923 when the Hospital was erected. At the
end of the present calendar year we estimate that we shall owe on the original
educational debt about $200,000, and on the Hospital debt about $80,000. We
need to keep in mind that as the debt has decreased and our interest rate
lowered almost all we are now paying is for principal.
It appears that the total receipts for the Hundred Thousand Club will
amount to around ninety to one hundred thousand this year. One-half of this
is used for the reduction of our State Convention debts. We mention this here,
and in another part of the report we will indicate steps which we believe
should be undertaken to rid the Convention of debt in 1944. It now appears
that all agencies of the Southern Convention will be out of debt in 1944,
so that all funds received through the Hundred Thousand Club in 1944 can
be used for the reduction of State debts.
5. We continue to urge pastors and churches to enter the Ministers Re-
tirement Plan, and a great number have entered during the present year, but
we have enrolled as yet only about forty per cent of the active pastors in the
State and only about twenty-five per cent of the churches. Since the inaugura-
tion of the Plan in 1940 we have forwarded to the Relief and Annuity Board
as payments by the pastors $62,484.83, the sum of $62,484.83 as payments from
the churches, and from the Convention $14,507.08, making a total of $139,476.74.
Since 1941, the year in which the first benefits were paid, annuities and dis-
ability benefits have been paid aggregating about $17,000. Thus there re-
mains in the fund about $122,000 in addition to the interest which the fund has
earned during these years. The Board believes the Plan to be thoroughly
sound. It has rejoiced to see many needy pastors and widows of pastors
receiving age and disability benefits. Once again every pastor and church
is urged to enter the Plan. Attention is called again also to the fact that a
pastor may enter on a 2%, 3% or 4% basis, and benefits will be figured
accordingly. Once again also we call attention to the fact that a pastor
and his church, or churches, may enter at any time during the present year
and by remitting past due payments have the membership dated as of January
1, 1943. However, no payments can be accepted for the years 1940, 1941 or
1942. This has been pointed out over and over again, and here again it is
repeated for emphasis. Pastors, therefore, who permit 1943 to pass with-
out entering must begin with 1944, thus receiving in the end an annuity
reduced accordingly.
6. The Convention in 1942 adopted the following recommendation made
to it by the General Board :
"That the Board be authorized and empowered to provide an
amount in the neighborhood of five to six thousand dollars, the
amount to be expended in the interest of securing a dry State at
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the earliest possible moment ; that authority be granted the Board
to cooperate with other denominations in the promotion of this
work, or, failing in this, to proceed by employing one or more men
on a part time or full time basis."
Pursuant to this recommendation many Baptists and members of other
denominations were called to meet in Raleigh in March of this year. In that
enthusiastic meeting steps were taken to organize the Christian forces of
the State, with the result that in a later meeting the Allied Church League
for the Abolition of Beverage Alcohol, Inc., was organized. A charter was
secured, and an Executive Committee, made up of representatives of about
a dozen denominations in the State, was elected. At a later date this Executive
Committee selected Mr. L. A. Martin, a deacon and Sunday school teacher in
the First Baptist Church of Lexington, as Executive Director, and Mr. Martin
began work on July 1 of this year. Thus a part of the appropriation made by
our convention last year for this purpose has been used. It is gratifying to
learn that other denominations in their annual meetings, held this fall, have
appointed trustees and made appropriations out of their funds for the support
of the League.
The Certificate of Incorporation of the League states that the objects for
which the corporation was formed are as follows :
(1) To promote Christian citizenship and civic righteous-
ness, including sobriety and total abstinence.
(2) To ascertain, assemble and disseminate scientific facts
regarding alcoholic beverages and the physical, mental, social
and moral effects of their use; to prepare, print, publish and dis-
tribute letters, circulars, pamphlets, papers and other printed ma-
terial regarding alcoholic beverages ; to organize and prosecute
campaigns and work against alcoholic beverages, along educa-
tional, legislative and all other lines ; and to engage in all forms
of activities to combat the manufacture and sale of alcoholic
beverages.
The By-Laws of the League have the following provisions :
Section 1. The operations of this Corporation shall be con-
trolled by a Board of Trustees. They shall have complete authority
to elect officers, to determine rules and regulations for the man-
agement of the Corporation, to make By-Laws for the Corpora-
tion and to amend the same, and to direct and control completely
the affairs and the business of the Corporation.
Section 2. The members of the initial Board of Trustees shall
be selected by the Incorporators of this Corporation ; and their
successors shall be selected as follows : each Denomination that
has in North Carolina churches for white persons shall be entitled
to have representation on the Board of Trustees, if they desire
to participate in the work of this Corporation; this representation
shall be determined by the number of members in North Carolina
of each participating Denomination; each Denomination shall
be entitled to have at least one member on the Board of Trustees,
irrespective of the size of its membership, and shall be entitled to
have one additional Trustee for each 10,000 members, or major
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fraction thereof, within North Carolina. From time to time, each
Denomination will select the persons whom it desires to serve as
Trustees, and report the names of these nominees to the President
of this Corporation; and said nominees shall be elected by the
Board of Trustees, at its next meeting, to be members of the Board
to succeed those members already on the Board as representatives
of each respective Denomination. Each Denomination shall de-
termine for itself the manner in which it will select its nominees.
If any Denomination does not select or nominate persons to repre-
sent it on the Board of Trustees, said Board shall have the authority
to elect as Trustees, upon its own nomination, persons, who are
members of said Denomination. Members of the Board of Trus-
tees shall serve one year and until their successors are elected
and qualified.
In accordance with these provisions, therefore, this Convention should
nominate 55 of its members to the present Board of Trustees of the League,
who, according to the By-Laws, have the power to elect them to member-
ship.
7. Last year we made mention of the unusual State Mission opportunities
presented to us in the defense areas in the eastern part of our State. In our
attempts to meet these opportunities the Board has tried to follow an aggres-
sive program. Immanuel Church in Fayetteville has been well-nigh com-
pleted. The New South River Association has purchased a lot in another
section of Fayetteville and has some three to four thousand dollars in hand,
or in sight, with which to begin a building. The Convention will need to put
into this project an additional three or four thousand. The first unit of the
Sunset Park Church in Wilmington will be ready for occupancy soon.
The Board has also purchased a home and two adjacent lots in Carolina
Beach, where there are now more than five thousand people living. Another
lot has been purchased in the Lake Forest area of Wilmington, and yet
another rented in another section of Wilmington. In these areas the Board
has placed several aggressive young pastors. In last year's report we made
mention of the excellent work of Edwin F. Perry near Fort Bragg, and
James H. Butler in Wilmington. Early in the year Lewis E. Ludlum was
transferred from Jacksonville to Carolina Beach, and his place at Jackson-
ville was taken by Rev. and Mrs. David K. Shelton, who began work the
first of June. More recently M. G. Chapman has been secured as a mission-
ary in the Fayetteville area to aid in establishing a church in the Windsor
Terrace area, and to do a special mission work in the Spring Lake section.
We have not done all we should in these areas. We have bought lots and
expended some money on buildings, but we have been careful not to expend
a lot of money on buildings where they would be of little or no use as soon
as the war effort is over.
We record with appreciation the fact that the Foreign Mission Board has
let us use for a part of the year several of their missionaries to do work in
these areas.
8. A movement in which the Board has been greatly interested has been
that of securing well-trained young men and young women as associational
missionaries. We point out that Tom S. Lawrence has been secured by the
Pilot Mountain Association for full time work. Only recently G. Woodrow
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Bullard has gone to the Roanoke Association in a similar capacity. For these
two workers the Board has made no appropriation save for some traveling
expense for one of them, but in several other associations the Board has
been happy to meet about half of the expenses involved in securing well-
trained young women. At the present time one may find Ruth Keller in the
Caldwell, Willa B. Marks in the Surry, Laura Mae Hilliard in the Yancey
and French Broad, Madge S. Lewis in the Haywood, and Mrs. Fannie Gib-
son in the Macon and West Liberty. The Carolina and Ashe associations have
voted to employ missionaries as soon as they can be found. The same may
be said also about the Gaston County, the Buncombe, the Wilmington and the
South Fork.
It is well known that about all the work and giving in most of the churches
is done by about one-third of the members. There are multiplied thousands
of our people who are uninterested and unenlisted. It will be the work of these
associational missionaries to discover these and lead them into active support
of all things Baptists are trying to do. They will also, of course, give their
time in winning others to Christ and to church membership. We record this
movement here because we think it of great import.
9. During the year the General Missionaries have conducted association-
wide revivals in all sections of the State. We do not here attempt to tabulate
the results in so far as professions of faith, church memberships, etc., are
concerned. On the whole, however, we have been gratified at the results,
although we have been almost forced to conclude that a new method in
evangelism must be discovered. In meeting after meeting it was reported that
the church members attended the meetings quite well, but somehow the meet-
ings failed to reach, as was hoped, those outside the church. It is the purpose
of the Board to continue these efforts, and perhaps try to help in discovering
new methods.
10. In the above paragraphs we have called attention to some of the out-
standing things that have been attempted this year. We call attention to two
other phases of our work which we have not attempted, but which should
have attention at the earliest possible moment.
For two or three years the Convention has authorized the employment of
a man whose business it would be to visit those who have accumulated prop-
erty, and who could perhaps become interested in leaving something to some
of our Baptist institutions. The fact that nothing has been done about this
has not been due to a lack of appreciation of the task, for we have a deep
interest in it. The plain truth is we have not as yet been able to find the
man for this job. If the Convention adopts the recommendations which form
a part of this report, it is the hope of the Board to continue the search.
Also we call attention to the fact that little or nothing has been done
to enlist the men of our churches specifically in the full work of the church.
Of course in evangelistic meetings and other meetings the general missionaries
have sought to win the support of the men of our churches to full support of
the full Baptist program. Recently we discovered that about one-half the
delegates attending the Methodist Conference are laymen. We Baptists can
make no such claim for our laymen with respect to attendance upon the
meeting of the State Convention. They do attend the annual associational
meetings quite well, we are happy to say. Perhaps we should put our hearts
and our hands to the task of finding an outstanding layman to give his full
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time to the task of winning our 100,000 men to a fuller loyalty to Christ and
the program of the churches and the Convention.
73.
THE YEAR 1944
In 1944, the Lord willing, we should continue to carry on an aggressive
State Mission program ; we must do all we can for our colleges and for all our
institutions, but above all the Board believes we must give ourselves with
abandon to lifting completely the debts now on the Convention.
As stated elsewhere, the debt of the Convention at the beginning of the
year 1944 will be about $275,000, this including the balance of the old educa-
tional debt and the amount assumed for the Hospital. We can easily raise this
amount in one year without injury to the remainder of our work. Specific
recommendations with reference to this appear at the end of this report.
Here, however, we outline briefly what can be done to achieve the purpose
we have in mind.
In the first place, the balance of the debt on the Hospital can be raised
by doubling the offering made on Mother's Day in 1943; and certainly there
is hardly a church in the State that cannot easily do this. We should go after
$150,000, using the first $75,000 for taking care of the poor who need to be
in our Hospital, and with the remainder we can easily lift the debt for which
the Convention is responsible.
Then if those who are now members of the Hundred Thousand Club
will only continue their memberships for one more year, and gifts to the
Cooperative Program continue with a reasonable increase over the present
year, we should have no trouble in getting out of debt. Looking forward to
that happy day the Woman's Missionary Union, in their annual meeting in
March 1943, adopted the following resolution :
"That we become not over-joyous in the fact that some of our
Southwide Boards will perhaps be out of debt in 1943, remember-
ing that North Carolina is still in debt and we will not have a
debtless denomination until ALL debts are paid. Therefore, we
will cooperate with debt-paying plans of the North Carolina State
Convention."
Thus if the Convention adopts the recommendation in this report, it appears
that the full support of the Woman's Missionary Union may be counted on as
together we try to achieve the objective we have in mind.
Then in 1945, and we trust thereafter, we can place all our emphasis on
the Cooperative Program. It is expected that we shall not have to ask our
people for a special offering in 1945 for the Hundred Thousand Club or the
Wake Forest chapel. Last year the Board asked for a special offering for
work around the camps. That offering will not be asked for again in 1944
unless the Convention so directs. Hence we have had three special offerings
during the present year which we need not have in 1945. In this matter we
applaud the action of the Foreign Mission Board in adopting the recom-
mendation of Secretary Maddry in his recent report to that board :
"We wish to say a very serious word concerning the Coopera-
tive Program. This, we believe, is the best method yet devised by
Southern Baptists for the adequate, continuous, and dependable
support of all phases of our Baptist work.
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For twelve years, as a State secretary, we worked in season
and out of season, for the establishment and success of the Co-
operative Program as a method for securing funds from the
churches for the support of all phases of our Baptist work. We are
still loyal to that Program. We would urge, therefore, that this
Board instruct all of its secretaries and missionaries to do every-
thing possible for the success and advancement of the Cooperative
Program among the churches. We sincerely hope that our mis-
sionaries on furlough will refrain from asking for special gifts
for their work abroad, particularly for special gifts from generous-
hearted brethren and sisters for projects the missionaries may have
on the way on the mission field. This is one of the most difficult
and vexing problems confronting your secretaries. We would en-
treat pastors and churches and State mission boards to keep always
before our people in the churches the ideal of a fifty-fifty division
of all funds given by the churches as between local, Statewide,
southwide, and worldwide causes. We sincerely believe that the
financial problems of all of our boards, institutions, and agencies
would be solved if we could induce our people to pay into the
treasury of the churches a tithe of their income, and then insist
that a wise and equitable distribution of these sacred funds be
made between local and world-wide causes. We would, therefore,
urge all of our missionaries on furlough to speak and plead for
the whole Cooperative Program of Southern Baptist work and to
cease, once and for all, the practice of soliciting, directly or in-
directly, special gifts for their work."
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N. C. Baptist State Convention
74.
I. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
We bring to the Convention the letter of the auditor and a brief state-
ment of receipts and expenditures for the twelve months period ending
September 30, 1943. At the end of the calendar year, which is the fiscal year
of the Convention, a more detailed audit for the calendar year 1943 will be
presented.
Auditor's Statement
Executive Committee of the General Board
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
Gentlemen:
According to your instructions, we have audited the books and records of the Convention for the
twelve months ended September 30, 1943, and prepared the following statements of cash receipts and
disbursements.
All cash receipts were found to have been promptly deposited in the banks and disbursements were
supported by cancelled checks, invoices, etc., with expenses properly classified. Our examination did
not disclose any evidence of irregularities and we believe the funds have been carefully and honestly
handled and all accounted for.
After the books have been closed for the current calendar year we will complete the audit and report
to you in detail the income and expenditures for 1943.
Respectfully submitted,
A. T. Allen & Company,
Raleigh, N. C. Certified Public Accountants.
November 1, 1943
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1943
Cash
Balance
10-1-42
Receipts for
Fiscal
Year
Disbursements
for Fiscal
Year
Cash
Balance
9-30-43
GENERAL FUND
Receipts:
From Churches — Undesignated.
Disbursements:
For General Fund Expenses
STATE MISSIONS
Receipts:
Designated Funds
Baptist Foundation
Baptist Sunday School Board
Churches for Rev. L. E. Ludlum's Salary..
Churches for David K. Shelton's Salary
Gifts from Southern States for Oteen Sup-
port
Rent McCuller's Church
Share of General Fund
(1942 17 per cent; 1943 15 per cent)
Total Receipts and Beginning cash
Overdraft
$ 44,093.66
70,710.39
473.00
7,630.93
243.00
60.00
757.47
32.00
80,287.40
$18,126.49
$ 160,194.19
$ 44,093.66
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CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— Continued
Cash
Balance
10-1-42
Receipts for
Fiscal
Year
Disbursements
for Fiscal
Year
Cash
Balance
9-30-43
Disbursements:
Department of Christian Education in
Schools:
$ 12,938.55
10,028.11
10,827.43
7,343.98
1,669.74
3,157.92
2,073.00
10,413.63
23,263.64
23,687.08
1,780.76
1,829.87
1,065.37
600.00
2,311.48
11,842.31
1,536.27
1,820.00
7,113.40
839.02
934.83
Other State Missions Work:
Miscellaneous:
Salaries Recording and Statistical Sec-
Preparation Manuscript and History
Contingent, Radio Hour, Camp Work,
Subscriptions Biblical Recorder for
Total Disbursements and End-
? 137,076.39
$ 4,991.31
$ 4,788.23
$ 2,100.00
MINISTERS' RELIEF FUND— SPECIAL
Receipts:
$ 25.00
$ 6,863.23
$ 1,057.76
$ 701.83
5,165.52
EDUCATION MINISTERIAL AID
Receipts:
$ 3,692.50
Designated Funds and from Baptist Foun-
Totals Receipts and Beginning Cash
$ 1,057.76
$ 5,867.35
Disbursements:
Total Disbursements and Ending
$ 3,692.50
$ 3,232.61
3 8,061.88
S 1,944.10
135,496.34
46,157.01
EDUCATION CONVENTION DEBT
Receipts:
(1942 35 per cent; 1943 23 per cent)
Apportionment from Hundred Thousand
Club .
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
$ 8,061.88
$ 183,597.45
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CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— Continued
Cash
Balance
10-1-42
Receipts for
Fiscal
Year
Disbursements
for Fiscal
Year
Cash
Balance
9-30-43
Disbursements:
Borrowed Money Repaid Wachovia Bank
3 123,000.00
2,200.00
750.00
9,012.58
208.50
560.00
65.00
31,233.46
15.00
Paid on Mars Hill Note Payable
Education Current Support October 1,
1942 to December 31, 1942
Gift to Mars Hill College..
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 167,044.54
3 24,614.79
3 19,670.08
25,827.47
NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITAL FUND
Receipts:
3 19,744.29
23,500.00
2,213.68
2,400.00
938.00
3 6,255.86
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
3 45,497.55
Disbursements:
Payments on Note — Wachovia Bank and
Payments on Interest — Wachovia Bank
Payments on Note — Security Life and
Payments on Interest — Security Life and
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 48,795.97
3 2,957.44
3 10,330.99
MINISTERS' RETIREMENT FUND
Receipts:
3 2,077.26
5,843.03
1,023.10
3 2,434.23
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
3 10,330.99
Disbursements:
Salary, Office Expense, Equipment, Bond
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 8,943.39
3 3,821.83
3 39,154.73
65,000.00
WAKE FOREST CHAPEL BUILDING
FUND
Receipts:
? 4,051.11
60,600.00
50,000.00
727.91
3 3,807.60
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
3 104,154.73
Disbursements:
Salaries, Travel, House Rent, Printing,
Paid on Notes — Wachovia Bank and Trust
Co
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 115,379.02
3 7,416.69
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CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— Continued
Cash
Balance
10-1-42
Receipts for
Fiscal
Year
Disbursements
for Fiscal
Year
Cash
Balance
9-30-43
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
Receipts:
3 424.09
3 394.01
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
$
3 442.09
Disbursements:
Total Disbursements and Ending
394.01
3 30.08
3 2,077.00
52,679.58
EDUCATION CURRENT SUPPORT
Receipts:
3 31,803.34
1,815.14
None
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
3 54,756.58
Disbursements:
Audits and Expenses Education, Commis-
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 33,618.48
3 21,138.10
3 95,627.81
40,024.53
113,514.51
545.69
206,619.76
SOUTHWIDE OBJECTS FUND
Receipts:
3 200,759.51
47,193.27
46,157.01
106,875.93
39,969.22
539.69
S26.912.77
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
3 456,332.30
Disbursements:
Paid on Designations Hundred Thousand
Club
Apportionment of Hundred Thousand Club
Foreign Mission Designations and Expense-
Home Missions Designations and Expense-
Ministerial Relief Regular — Designations
Total Disbursements and Ending Bal-
3 441,494.63
3 37,836.32
Due State Program from September
Designations Hundred Thousand
3 3,914.12
335,191.84
31,067,348.89
GRAND TOTALS
31,000,557.59
3101,983.14
75.
II. REPORT OF GENERAL BOARD MEETINGS
Actions of the General Board in its meeting in January 1943 follow :
1. The Board was organized with the election of J. Winston Pearce as
President, E. Norfieet Gardner as Vice-President and C. B. Deane as Re-
cording Secretary.
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2. O. L. Moore of Laurinburg was elected to membership on the Board
to take the place of Aubrey L. Tomlinson, who had resigned his pastorate
in Laurinburg to enter the armed service as a chaplain.
3- New members of the Executive Committee were elected as follows :
Claude F. Gaddy, M. L. Banister and E. N. Gardner.
4. Concerning payment of the Victory Tax the following motion was
adopted :
"Due solely to the emergency which exists and the desire of
all to cooperate with the government in such an emergency, the
Board instructs its executive officers to comply with the request
of the Federal government for the deduction of the Victory Tax
from the amount which it pays to its employees ;
Further, the Board suggests to the individual churches that
they likewise comply with this request of the government.
In doing so it is our distinct understanding that no principle in-
volved in the complete separation of church and State is com-
promised."
5. The division of the 60% of the Undesignated Cooperative Program for
the use of State objects was adopted as follows:
State Missions 15%
Hospital 5%
Ministerial Education 1%
Ministers' Retirement Fund 2%
Education-Debt Service 23%
Education-Current Support 14%
Total 60%
6. Concerning the Ministers' Retirement Plan the following actions were
taken :
"(a) Upon motion by Nane Starnes the Board recommended
that the requirement of thirty-three and one-third years of service
for those participating in the Ministers' Retirement Plan be re-
duced to twenty-five years, and that the Executive Committee be
empowered to make this change subject to the approval of the Re-
lief and Annuity Board.
"(b) The Board approved the payment of 4% for chaplains
wishing to retain their membership in the Ministers' Retirement
Plan while serving with the armed forces, the maximum for any
one man not to exceed $100 annually.
"It was also understood that any North Carolina minister
who became a chaplain, and who was at that time not a member
of the Plan, might enter the Plan on this basis of he so desired,
with the further understanding that this arrangement would stand
so long as he served as chaplain during the present conflict and
for a period not to exceed six months after the cessation of hos-
tilities.
"(c) Adoption of the suggestion that a minimum of $1200,
and a maximum of $2,000, be used during the year for the pro-
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motion of the Ministers' Retirement Plan; that as many as three
individuals in as many sections of the State be selected to give
part time to this program."
7. Concerning the action of the Convention in appropriating $5,000 to be
used for the cause of sobriety and temperance, and in general against the use
of alcoholic beverages, was considered, and upon motion the whole matter,
including the employment of one or more workers in conjunction with other
denominations, was referred to the Executive Committee.
8. The following resolution was adopted :
"Resolved that the Executive Committee of this General
Board be and it is hereby authorized and instructed, if necessary,
to borrow from time to time during the year 1943 from banks or
individuals, the total sum not to exceed Seventy-Five Thousand
Dollars ($75,000.00), and that any note, or notes, given for this
purpose shall be signed by the Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee and the General Secretary and Treasurer of the Conven-
tion."
9. Concerning appropriations for the educational institutions the following
general principles were adopted :
"(1) That the appropriations made last year to Wake Forest,
Meredith, Mars Hill, Campbell and Wingate be increased by 20%.
"(2) That on this basis an allocation now be made of only half
of the amount, covering the first six months of the year.
"(3) That the Education Committee and the Executive Com-
mittee together be authorized to fix the appropriation for the last
six months of the year, with due consideration of the needs of the
institutions and of available funds.
"(4) In determining the needs of the several institutions the
Education Committee and the Executive Committee shall be guided
by an auditor's report as of April 30.
"(5) That all appropriations to Wingate be made upon the
same conditions as that of last year; namely that the Convention
funds be matched with a like amount raised by the college.
"(6) That the appropriation to Chowan College shall be fixed
at $331/3 per student."
10. In the budget adopted the salaries of the employees of the General
Board were raised in amounts varying from about 6% to about 15%, those
receiving the lower salaries receiving the larger percentage of increase.
11. On the whole the budget adopted for 1943 was based upon the income
of the Convention for 1942. Some advances were made, and these will appear
in the audit of the books at the end of the present calendar year.
Actions of the Board in its meeting in June, 1943 follow :
1. The Board took action looking toward the increase of aid to
our ministerial students in the several schools, it being felt that
the 1% of the Cooperative Program was not providing an amount
sufficient for the purpose.
2. It was voted to continue the appropriation so that North
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Carolina might do her part in supporting the Southern Baptist
Radio Hour.
3. The report of the Executive Committee, to whom the matter
of appropriations to the colleges was referred, was adopted as
follows for the calendar year 1943 :
Wake Forest $20,000
Meredith 20,000
Mars Hill 15,000
Campbell 12,500
Wingate 3,500
It should here be stated that the appropriation to Wingate was on the
condition that they send $3,500 to the Convention treasurer, and with the
understanding that this amount be secured from individuals in such a way
as to interfere in no wise with the gifts of the churches for the Cooperative
Program.
76.
III. DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS
A. HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
During the twelve months period ending September 30, 1943, we have
forwarded for all Southern Baptist Convention objects $395,337.62, a gain
over the preceding year of $74,873.42. During a corresponding period ending
September 30, 1942, the gain over the preceding year was $80,583.50.
Undesignated funds for Southern Baptist Convention objects during 1943
are divided as follows :
Per Cent
Foreign Mission Board 50
Home Mission Board 23 1/3
Relief and Annuity Board 10 1/3
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 4 1/5
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 4 1/5
Baptist Bible Institute 4 1/5
W. M. U. Training School 8/15
American Baptist Theological Seminary 1 1/2
Southern Baptist Hospital' 1 7/10
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B. STATE MISSIONS
In the introductory part of this report we called attention to two phases
of State Mission work which have during the year received our careful atten-
tion, namely, the work in the camp areas and the associational missionaries.
We called attention also to the association-wide revivals, and these matters
need not be repeated here.
We record with gratitude the increased interest in State Missions mani-
fested by the Woman's Missionary Union. The exact figures are not yet
available, but the offering of the women made in September appears to be some
thirty per cent greater than in 1942. They have given this year something
of the same attention to the study of State Missions as they have formerly
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given to the study of Home and Foreign Missions. It is believed that the
eyes of many have been opened to the pressing needs here in North Carolina.
It appears that our total income for State Missions this year will amount to
at least $150,000. Even so our total expenditures are only a little above what
they were fifteen years ago.
1. General Missionaries
We record here reports of the general missionaries. In doing so we pay
tribute to the very devoted and effective service of Douglas M. Branch, who
served as general missionary from March 1, 1942 to September 12, 1943. The
service of Brother Branch was not long, but it was extremely valuable. To
the work he brought a strong body, a keen mind and a warm heart. He held
many meetings in individual churches, and while with the Board was respon-
sible for organizing association-wide revivals in many associations. Without
adopting a formal resolution, the Board here records with deep gratitude its
appreciation of Mr. Branch as a Christian gentleman and a conscientious
worker. He left the work of the Board to enter the Southern Baptist Theologi-
cal Seminary in Louisville, where he hopes to remain for perhaps three years.
At the completion of his work there it is our hope that he will return to a
large opportunity in North Carolina.
With genuine delight the Board announces the election of E. L. Spivey
as general missionary in Piedmont Carolina. He began work with the Board
on September 1. To this task he brings training of a very high order, having
attended Wake Forest College and having received his doctor of theology
degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is now forty-two
years of age, in excellent health, and is thoroughly prepared in body, mind
and spirit for the great task ahead of him. He is to make his home in
Charlotte, from which point he can reach all parts of Piedmont Carolina
very easily. Pastors and churches will be fortunate if they can secure his
services either in stewardship revivals or in evangelistic meetings.
The reports of the general missionaries follow :
(a) Report of M. O. Alexander
Permit me, please, to change the form of this brief report, which is given
each year. Heretofore I have given a detailed statement of my work as to
time, place and type of work undertaken. I will presume that you will know
that I, along with your other servants of the Convention, have been busy.
After nine years among our Baptist people in all parts of North Carolina
touching every phase of their lives and activities as Baptists, I am prepared
to sing their praise and to pronounce them a great and noble throng. I am
thinking of the tremendous possibilities along with grave responsibilities that
are at our very door as Baptists.
We have more than half a million members of our churches, and that
great army led only 19,000 to open confession of faith and through the
baptismal waters last year out of a possible 600,000 in our State. The fact
is that not more than two-fifths of our Baptist people are enlisted. We have
around 300,000 members who are almost wholly indifferent to our Kingdom
program. I honestly believe that these good people lack only one thing, and
that is specific information with reference to our Christian way of life, the
meaning of Christian Discipleship and Christian Stewardship. Our government
looks with positive favor upon thorough training for each soldier, and we
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should be pleased with nothing less for our men in our armies. Can we expect
our Baptist army to function well and win great victories for our God if they
are not trained? I call to your attention again, as I have done for the past
five or six years, to the last verse of the Gospel of Matthew; "Teaching
Them," after baptism, training those whom we enlist as Disciples of Jesus.
Our churches welcome help from any source, the calls are many, the needs
are great, but prepared laborers are few indeed.
Our needs in the State call for the strongest and most thoroughly trained
leaders that can be found to train (teach) 300,000 saved ones, who are anxious
and willing to serve our God, and by His grace to reach the thousands who
are unsaved. There is no end to our possibilities, and no way to estimate the
seriousness of our responsibilities. "To him that knoweth to do good and
doeth it not, to him it is sin."
I give thanks to God for North Carolina Baptists, and pray to Him that
we may arise in His strength without delay to do His will and work here
and now.
(b) Report of D. M. Branch
1. I arranged for and led in six association-wide simultaneous revival cam-
paigns. In some respects all of these movements were successful; some, of
course, were more effective than others. In general I will say that in every
association where we had anything like fair cooperation from pastors and
churches these efforts were gloriously blessed of the Lord in at least four
ways: (1) in strengthening the churches; (2) in deepening the understanding
and fellowship of the ministers participating and assisting; (3) in strengthen-
ing the bond between the churches and the convention and its agencies ; (4) in
reaching the lost for Christ.
2. I preached in fifteen revival meetings in churches, these running from
one to two weeks, and held two evangelistic meetings in mission points. In
these revivals there were in the neighborhood of one hundred and fifty pro-
fessions of faith, and in addition many were added to the churches by letter
and statement. All of those who made professions, except about three, joined
the Baptist churches where they made the profession.
3. I taught one mission study course in a W. M. S.
4. One week was spent in the pastor's school held at Gardner- Webb College,
during which time I rendered what service it was possible for me to render
the meeting as a general missionary.
5. During the year I supplied several pulpits, made several special addresses,
and sought in every possible way to promote all the agencies of the convention,
including the Biblical Recorder.
On September 12, 1943 I severed my relation with the State Mission Board,
having worked as general missionary for approximately 19 months. I am
grateful to God for having had this privilege of serving North Carolina
Baptists in the promotion of the Kingdom of God. The relation I now sever
has been one of great benefit to me, and the only reason for discontinuing this
connection is that I feel keenly the need for further training. We go imme-
diately to the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville.
In closing let me plead for whole-hearted and sincere cooperation on the
part of North Carolina pastors and churches with our Baptist State Conven-
tion and all its agencies. The devil would like nothing better than to engender
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suspicion and division among our Baptist ranks in North Carolina. I would
testify with all the sincerity of my soul that it has never been my privilege
to work with a more sincere, humble, and devout group of Christians than
those who work as the servants of Christ and North Carolina Baptists. Brother
E. L. Spivey takes over the work I have tried for these months to do. He has
been led of the Lord to this work, a work he is far better qualified, from the
standpoint of training and experience, to do than I. I plead with all our
Baptist host in our beloved State to give him ready acceptance and unfailing
cooperation.
We covet the prayers of our host of friends in North Carolina, and we hope,
by God's grace, to return to our own beloved State to serve Him more
effectively when this period of training is done.
(c) Report of J. C. Pipes
Below is a brief summary of my work as General Missionary of the
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina from October 1, 1942, through
September 30, 1943:
Attended ten annual associational meetings in the interest of
our general work.
Held seven revival meetings of ten days each.
Conducted ten one-day pastors' conferences and attended a
large number of regular monthly pastors' conferences.
Conducted two simultaneous evangelistic meetings.
Supplied for a period of two months every other Sunday
morning in a country church.
Conducted seven one-week preachers' revivals.
Held during the year eleven one-week stewardship revivals in
individual churches.
Attended two weeks preachers' schools (Mars Hill and Gard-
ner-Webb ) .
Worked for two weeks in a church visitation program in the
Haywood Association.
In all this week I have been encouraged by the progress our churches are
making. It seems to me there is a fine spirit of cooperation and a greater
desire to learn and do the Master's will. In all of our evangelistic efforts it
seems to me there is a greater spirit of evangelism and more warmth and
more passion for the lost than there has been in a number of years. In the
revivals I have directed and held there has been more than five hundred
additions to the churches. In these efforts we have sent in more than four
hundred new subscriptions to the Biblical Recorder. The free will offerings
in the meetings have paid expenses. All told, we believe we have had one of
the best years in the work that we have had since going with the Convention.
As we look forward to the coming year before us we do so with hope
and confidence that if true to Him and to the trust He has committed to us
we shall have His abiding presence and leadership and we can be assured
that our labors are not in vain in the Lord.
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77.
2. Missionary Pastoral Assistance
We give below a summary of the work done by our missionary pastors
from October 1, 1942 through September 30, 1943:
Number of Missionary Pastors 70
Number of churches aided 121
Sermons 9,746
Other addresses 2,303
Revivals held 174
Training Classes conducted 74
Visits made 22,143
Conversions 1,482
Baptisms 1,225
Additions other than by Baptism 916
Churches repaired or being built 33
Subscriptions secured to Charity and Children 295
Subscriptions secured to Biblical Recorder 500
Subscriptions secured to Mission Magazines 373
The following amounts were reported as gifts made by churches during
the period :
Building and Repair $38,431
Pastors' salaries 50,521
Undesignated Cooperative Program 8,976
State Missions 2,070
Home Missions 528
Foreign Missions 2,188
Heck Memorial 90
Education 631
Hundred Thousand Club 1,897
Orphanage 5,550
Aid in Evangelistic Meetings 1,701
Hospital 1,185
W. M. U. Training School 15
Local Charity, etc 685
Temperance 39
Ministers' Retirement and Old Ministers' Relief 159
78.
3. Church Extension
The Board has numerous calls for help on buildings from all over the
State. In most cases the Board has not been able to meet these requests. Except
in most unusual cases help on buildings has been confined to the war areas
where buildings were urgently needed, and where churches had to be organized
and the work started. The Convention had to take the lead in such instances,
or nothing could have been done in most cases. The Convention has followed
its policy of buying choice lots in growing residential sections and holding
them until such time as it seemed wise to organize churches. The Board could
spend profitably fifty to one hundred thousand dollars in all sections of the
State in aiding poorly located churches in the country to abandon their old
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buildings located far away from the highways and relocate on the highways
where they would be more accessible to the membership. We are happy to
announce that some progress has been made in this direction. Only a lack of
funds prevents the doing of the thing we know ought to be done.
We give below a statement of funds expended from November 1, 1942
through October 31, 1943:
Church Association Amount
Boone Three Forks $1,500.00
Cullowhee Tuckaseigee 404.67
Aurora Roanoke 150.00
Pullen Memorial Raleigh 5,000.00
Sunset Park Wilmington 7,879.27
Carolina Beach Wilmington 2,415.94
Jacksonville Wilmington 147.62
Oteen Buncombe 300.00
Cary Street Mission Central 250.00
Enka Buncombe 750.00
West Greensboro Piedmont 750.00
Calvary Raleigh 562.52
Shady Brook Cabarrus 700.00
Fairfield Chowan 146.69
Topton Western North Carolina . . . 100.00
Fairview Gaston 400.00
Newman's Chapel Macon 300.00
Soldier Bay Dock 300.00
Lakewood Mount Zion 500.00
West Burlington Mount Zion 1,750.00
Gold Mine Macon 100.00
Macedonia Transylvania 55.00
West Franklin Street Gaston 300.00
Mount Olive Ashe , 100.00
Bethel Kings Mountain 500.00
79.
4. Work Among the Indians
Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Underwood continue their work among the Indians in
Robeson County. A year or two ago the Indians themselves erected a small
home at Pembroke for orphan children. The Board is happy that Mr. and Mrs.
Underwood have been able to have some part in carrying on that work.
Recently the Woman's Missionary Union appropriated $500 for the orphans'
home there, and just a few days ago Mr. Underwood wrote that the Indians
had raised a like amount to match the gift. A brief report from Mr. and Mrs.
Underwood of the work for the year ending September 30, 1943 follows :
We have been among the Indians of Robeson County in the
Burnt Swamp Association for a little over one year. We have
been encouraged with the progress made in many phases of the
work. I shall briefly state some of these.
Each of the twenty-five churches of the Burnt Swamp Associa-
tion have Sunday Schools and for the most part they are well at-
tended. Many of these Sunday Schools have had training classes
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and as a result they have been graded and enlarged. An Associa-
tional Sunday School Convention meets regularly once a month
with department conferences under the leadership of J. L. Carter.
There are eight B. T. U. organizations, two of which have been
organized during the last year. Each one of these has at least
four units in it. A B. T. U. Convention has been organized to meet
once a quarter.
Evangelism has been very much stressed throughout the year.
Religious Emphasis Week in the College was observed with nearly
one hundred professions. Youth Revivals, the B. S. U. Retreat,
the Associational Camp Week, D. V. B. S's and Study Courses
all have been the means of fifty or more consecrations. In addition
to these efforts the pastors have all had one week meetings and
some have had two. They report about two hundred professions
and consecrations.
This has been a year of great improvements in buildings. Three
new church buildings have been completed during the year : Beulah,
Mt. Elim and Zion Hill. Many of the old buildings have been painted
and the grounds made more attractive. Two churches have added
Sunday School rooms. Cedar Grove wanted to erect a modern
brick building, but was denied a permit for the duration.
The W. M. U. has had a great year in the advancement of all
phases of its work. Mission Study, training courses, new organiza-
tions, camp work and contributions for all worthy objects have
been stressed.
A Pastors' Conference was organized nearly a year ago. It
meets monthly. Subjects of timely interest are arranged for dis-
cussion. The pastors seem to enjoy this meeting very much and
always look forward with interest to the next meeting. A train-
ing school for our pastors was held the last week in May. Rev.
E. S. Summers was with us and led the pastors in a fine way.
Total collections for the year :
For local church use $13,945.42
For local orphanage 3,259.80
For missions (all phases) , 718.68
For Hospital (Winston- Salem) 1,083.57
Grand total $19,007.47
80.
5. Cooperative Work with the General Baptist State Convention
Rev. C. E. Griffin continues as General Secretary of the Negro Baptist
Convention in the State. His growing conception and grasp of the work has
been a source of much joy to the Board. The same may be said also of his
associate, Rev. J. F. Wertz, who became Sunday School and Training Union
Secretary when J. H. Clanton left the work to enter the chaplaincy. Recently
Brother Clanton visited the offices of the General Board, and it was noted
that in addition to wearing the cross as a chaplain he had the bars of a
captain on his shoulders.
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We enter here the report of the work for the year ending September 30,
1943 as presented by Secretaries Griffin and Wertz :
The following is a resume of the activities of our office during the past
twelve months— October 1, 1942 to September 30, 1943 :
A. Report of activities of Brother T- F. Wertz, Director of Religious Edu-
cation and Training:
Bodies visited 11
Sermons preached 90
Lectures delivered 126
Letters sent out 663
Teacher Training Courses 93
Vacation Bible Schools 11
Miles traveled 1 1,142
Ministers Institutes 19
Leaders for Institutes 3
Conferences 22
Amount spent traveling $334.26
B. Report of activities of Brother C. E. Griffin, Executive Secretary:
Sermons preached 133
Lectures delivered 157
Ministers visited 565
Miles traveled 19,642
Number of letters sent out 8,763
Amount spent traveling $334.26
It is with a peculiar joy that I am able to report the activities of our work
for the year just ending, 1942-43. May I hasten to state that the year has
been marked with unusual and significant developments, developments that
definitely indicate that our people are more and more realizing their respon-
sibility to the conventional work.
I can report without fear of contradiction that the spirit of cooperation,
sacrifice, and service among our people is more apparent now than in any
period in the history of our convention. Not only is this true among our
people in general, but it is true among all of the departments of our Convention.
Harmony seems to be the rule. We thank Our Father for His guidance in
all of these unusual developments for surely they have been most significant.
The most significant, perhaps, is the very fine response received from our
people to the Conventional program, especially to the Five Year Plan to realize
$70,000 a year for our Conventional objectives. As a result, the report
just received from our Foreign Mission Board indicates that North Carolina
Baptists gave more for Foreign Missions this year just closed, September
30, than we have ever given in the history of the convention. The amount for
Foreign Missions alone for this period is approximately $11,000. I am sure
our other objectives realized a similar success. I give this example because
it is the only report we have received for our Annual as yet.
Another meaningful development noted this year is the work our modera-
tors are doing through their associations and what our larger city units
are doing through their churches. The moderators, themselves, are taking
the lead in recruiting every church in their bounds for greater service to our
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Baptist work. Every association is striving to have periods of training and
periods of conventional activities during the year leading up to their annual
sessions. This has brought fruitful results. In our larger cities the Baptist
Churches are constantly coming together for the same purposes. Here they
fostered a week or more of training and conventional activities. As an out-
standing example, I have already reported the Wilmington move. Here was
featured a special State Convention Day. Dr. S. L. Blanton was one of the
speakers. Similar features were conducted in Charlotte, Greensboro, and
especially Winston-Salem, where some phase of our conventional work was
stressed each week leading up to a fifth Sunday. Other similar features were
held throughout the state.
Still another outstanding event for the year was the Annual Ministers Con-
ference and Institute. Each year it is part of our program to cooperate with
Shaw University in holding an Annual Ministers Conference and Institute
combined with the Woman's Missionary Conference, the Sunday School and
Baptist Training Union Training Conference. This year it was held at Shaw
University, from June 14th to June 18th. This Conference was recorded as
the best and as the most successful in our history. Approximately 500 were
in attendance. There were 13 Ministers Institutes held this year in various
parts of the state. Over 400 ministers were in attendance upon these Insti-
tutes.
As mentioned in the beginning of my report, we are having unusual
developments in our work. To my mind there are three definite causes for
this very unusual success. These may be recorded briefly :
Our Baptist Headquarters — The departments of our convention
have been drawn closer together and hence are better prepared to
work more harmoniously together. North Carolina Baptists look
with pride to their Headquarters. It gives them inspiration as
well as motivation.
Next, Our Manual, a book for use in the Churches entitled,
"Working Among Negro Baptist in North Carolina." For the first
time in our history a manual was compiled setting forth funda-
mental Baptist principles as well as the entire program of our
work as Baptist in North Carolina. I am able to say that this little
manual has brought inestimable results. The demand was so great
we have been authorized by our Board to increase the number for
next year as the supply for this year has long been exhausted.
Only reference copies remain.
Last, but not the least, the third cause for our continued suc-
cess is surely found in the fact of the constant, and, I hope, ever
abiding, spirit of cooperation existing between our friends — all of
them, of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and us.
This spirit of cooperation cannot be estimated in terms of dollars
and cents for it is far deeper and more significant than that. Per-
sonally, I have received untold value in the contacts made at your
annual conventions as well as contacts made throughout the year
over the state in various ways. For instance, the service rendered
by Mr. Morgan and the other workers at our State Sunday School
and Baptist Training Union Conventions in High- Point this year
is beyond value. Our people believe in the leadership of the
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Baptist State Convention. May Our Heavenly Father continue
to bless this relationship. The Negro Baptist of North Carolina
join me in giving thanks for your support to our work.
6. Oteen Mission
When the words "Oteen Mission" are mentioned one immediately thinks
of Wayne Williams, who gave many years of distinguished service to the
work there. It will be recalled that he left Oteen, being succeeded for a time
by Wyman Wood and later by Ottis Hagler, to become a chaplain in the army.
Because of his long service he soon attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
About a year ago his health began to fail. With joy we record his great
service, but with sorrow we record the fact of his illness.
In that important work Ottis Hagler carries on, not merely as Baptist
chaplain but as Protestant chaplain. We present a brief report of his year's
work there :
During the past twelve months the Chaplain at Oteen has been busy
giving his full time to a pastoral and preaching ministry to those who have
come seeking health. Under new status as Official Protestant Post Chaplain
we have been supported by the Veterans Administration, the cooperating Bap-
tist Churches of Buncombe County, the North Carolina State Mission Board,
and the various mission agencies of the South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, and Tennessee Conventions. It is hoped that other states with a
number of patients at Oteen will soon share in the enterprise.
We have been busy conducting regular worship services in the Red Cross
Chapel for ambulatory patients. This service is broadcast to the 21 wards
for bed patients. A weekly Bible Class is taught. During the week days we
have maintained a program of daily visitation to the Receiving and Surgery
Wards. Devotional literature, Bibles, Testaments, and tracts, have been dis-
tributed by the hundreds and thousands. Now and again we are called upon
for counselling. We conduct funerals for local patients and occasionally make
a trip to the home town of some veteran for this last service.
We have conducted 1,083 initial interviews on the Receiving Wards, made
5,000 or more routine patient contacts, answered more than 100 special calls
from the "seriously and critically ill." For this purpose we have been on 24
hour call all during the year.
At present we have a complement of 700 patients ; 1,083 having been
received and 1,181 discharged during the year. 200 young men of World
War II are now at Oteen. A like number have come and gone — cases pro-
nounced arrested, against medical advice, or AWOL. All branches of the
armed services of three Wars are represented here. Soldier, sailor, marine,
Army and Navy nurse, and WAC are here. Under a system of reciprocity
we have one sailor each from the English, Royal Dutch, and Fighting French
Navies. The Chaplain is responsible also for more than 100 negro patients.
The capacity of this facility is now 1,100 beds but due to extensive remodel-
ing for further expansion now under way we cannot at present care for
this number. By January 1, 1945 it is expected that we will be hospitalizing
a full capacity of 1,800 to 2,000 individuals.
The Baptist S. S. Board, the publishing houses of the Methodist and Pres-
byterian denominations, the American Bible Society, and the Moody Colportage
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Division of Moody Bible Institute have been generous in supplying an abun-
dance of literature, Bibles, Testaments, and tracts. Our gratitude for this is
unbounded.
Pastors and families of men or women coming to Oteen can be of help
in our work by notifying the Chaplain in advance. It is wonderful to be
able to say to a patient "Your pastor wrote about you, I've been expecting
you" or "Friends from your home town wrote and asked me to meet you."
Above all, pray for these who have given their health in defense of country
and pray for the Chaplain as he ministers to them.
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7. Sanatoriums
We present also brief reports from Pastor E. M. Harris of Aberdeen, who
continues his work with the sick at the State Sanatorium and with the girls
at Samarcand ; also a brief statement from J. N. Watson of Black Mountain
in connection with his work at the Western North Carolina Sanatorium there :
(a) Aberdeen
The North Carolina Sanatorium is not unmindful of the religious needs of
its patients and the value of religious instruction and public worship. For
those who are up, there is a public preaching service every Sunday in the
chapel conducted by the pastors of near by towns. These pastors are avail-
able for prayer meetings, personal visits and counseling. Sunday school every
Sunday conducted by an able corps of teachers from the Sanatorium. The
public worship services are well attended, and as a rule, much appreciated by
the patients who are physically able to come. I would say that the response
to all religious activities is encouraging. There are about 650 patients. In
our visits we find a large percentage reading their Bibles. Church bulletins
are greatly appreciated and any remembrances from their home church are
prized and cherished.
(b) Western North Carolina
This year has been a most pleasant and profitable year at the Sanatorium.
We have been able to visit rather regularly during the year. The patients,
Doctors, and the nurses have been most cordial in their response. Dr.
Bittinger, the Superintendent, has welcomed our work most graciously. There
are 282 patients in the institution today, Oct. 20, 1943. Of that number, 149
are Baptists, 104 belong to other churches, and 29 make no profession of faith
in our Lord Jesus Christ. This affords a great opportunity to do the work
of a pastor, the work of an evangelist, and the work of a missionary. We visit
the institution to bring cheer to those that are down-hearted, to rejoice with
those that are getting well, and to tell those who are lost about our Saviour.
We are privileged to preach to the patients one time each month. Those who
are able come to the chapel ; those who are not able can listen over the exten-
sion system that carries the message to them.
Perhaps I can best tell you about the work by telling you about a visit
there. The visit I made this morning will serve : I visited about one hundred
patients. I found joy, happiness, hope, despondency, sorrow, and disappoint-
ment. Several patients had moved to the first floor. This meant that they
were getting well and would soon, under normal condition, be going home. It
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is needless to say that they were rejoicing and wanted me to know about their
success. I went into one room and found a man who had lost his mother since
I was there last. This called for a word of comfort and a word of prayer
to the Father for him. This not only helped the man, but I find that it helps
me as well. A mother had received word from the War Department that
her son had been seriously wounded; this called for a word of faith and hope
and a prayer to the Father for his recovery. New patients had come in since
I was there. One man was a Methodist, another was a Lutheran, another
was a Baptist, and still another was a non-christian. To each of these patients
I tried to say something that would help them get adjusted in their new sur-
roundings, and to the non-christian, I urged upon him the necessity of trust-
ing Christ as his Saviour. Several months ago, a pastor wrote me about a man
there. This man was not a Christian. I made contact with the man, and
have been interested in him since. I saw him this morning and spoke to him
about trusting Christ.
The work offers a wonderful opportunity to do the real work of a pastor.
May I urge you to remember the work in your prayers. Pray for the patients ;
write to the ones that leave your church and community; come to see the
patients. Remember the patients on special occasions. Many of them have
been there for years — yes years. They need your help and prayers. Will
you help?
The Baptist Sunday School Board furnishes the Sunday School literature
that is used in the Baptist work. Mr. Irvin Page, a deacon of the First
Baptist Church in Black Mountain, N. C, has charge of the religious work
and he is doing a good job of it. We deeply appreciate him, not only as a
deacon, but as a co-laborer in our work at the Institution. We are grateful
to the Superintendent, the doctors, and the nurses for the fine spirit of co-
operation. They have been most grateful and helpful in their attitude. I feel
sure that I speak the spirit of the patients, when I say, Thank you, to the
State Convention for making this ministry possible. Keep some one at the
Sanatorium !
83.
8. Samarcand
The buildings and campus at Samarcand cover about twenty acres. There
are seven cottages well located, a large administration building, infirmary, edu-
cational building, a good chapel, superintendent's residence, a cannery and all
necessary dairy, barn, and out-buildings. Preaching services are held in the
chapel every Sunday by pastors of different denominations. There is no
church organization, but girls are permitted to unite with the church of their
choice when they are converted and wish to unite with a church. We have
received upon a profession of faith and baptism this year twenty-four. To
these we have given certificates of baptism and New Testaments, and when
they go home, or homes are provided for them, they will be given church
letters and pastors in the town to which they go will be notified. The future
of many a girl depends largely upon the reception she received when she
arrives at what is to be her home.
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84.
IV. DEPARTMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
We divide this report on Christian Education into two divisions : A. Chris-
tian Education in the Churches, B. Christian Education in the Colleges.
A. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN THE CHURCHES
John E. Lawrence who left the work as B. S. U. Secretary in May, 1942,
continues in the Navy, having now attained the rank of Lieutenant (jg).
As is well known, he was succeeded in the work by Richard T. Howerton, Jr.,
who continues as State Student Secretary.
Miss Cleo Mitchell has completed her work at Yale Divinity School,
where she was on leave of absence, and is now Student Secretary and Per-
sonnel Director at Meredith College. She is giving special attention to
selecting and training young ladies for work in the churches as church secre-
taries and as associational workers.
Miss Laura Bateman, who succeeded Miss Mitchell at W. C. U. N. C. in
Greensboro, was married to John Lawrence in June of this year. While
Lieutenant Lawrence is away she will devote a part of her time to the
work in Greensboro.
In June of this year the General Board called Rev. James P. Westberry,
of Bamberg, South Carolina, to become Secretary of the Department of
Christian Education. After much thought Mr. Westberry felt led to decline
the call, feeling that he should remain in the pastorate. No further steps
have been taken to fill this place, which was so ably filled for a period
of time by W. Perry Crouch.
It is with a deep sense of loss that we record the resignation of Nathan
C. Brooks, Jr. as State Training Union Secretary. North Carolina Baptists,
the Board believes, have never had a more devoted servant than Nathan
Brooks. To those of the Convention staff he was a great source of inspira-
tion. His courage and faith during his long period of illness was little short
of a benediction to his associates. He really has the shepherd's heart, and in
response to this urge he resigned the work to become pastor of the church
in Waynesboro, Georgia. In its June meeting the General Board passed the
following resolution :
"Whereas Rev. Nathan C. Brooks, Jr., has resigned as Train-
ing Union Secretary of the Baptist State Convention of North
Carolina to return to the pastorate, having already assumed the
pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Waynesboro, Georgia,
and
Whereas he served us unselfishly and effectively in this posi-
tion from January 1, 1937 to June 1, 1943,
Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved that the General Board
of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina express to Mr.
Brooks our heartfelt appreciation for these years of distinguished
service. We know him to be a Christian gentleman of deep
devotion and of the highest ideals. Moreover, we make record
here of his vigorous and robust faith, which has been an in-
spiration to all of us.
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Be It Also Resolved that our prayers and most cordial good
wishes shall follow him as he returns to the pastorate to become
the shepherd of souls.
We would also extend our deep appreciation to Mrs. Brooks,
who through time of trial has likewise stood by with unfaltering
faith.
Be It Resolved Further that this resolution form a part of
the report of the General Board to the Baptist State Convention."
To take his place the Executive Committee, acting for the Board, has
called to this important office W. Wilbur Hutchins, who began his work
with the Convention October 1, coming to the work from the pastorate of
the Southside Church in Winston-Salem. He brings to this task personal
gifts of a very high order, a keen, well-trained mind, a warm heart, and an
appreciation of the opportunities which the position affords. The Board
feels that the churches, and in particular the young people, are to be con-
gratulated because of his decision to accept the invitation of the Executive Com-
mittee.
Mr. L. L. Morgan, along with Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lane as field workers,
continues his effective work in the Sunday School Division.
Reports from the various divisions follow :
85.
1. Division of Sunday Schools
L. L. Morgan, Secretary
As we review the work of the past year, we are conscious that God has
been good, and that our people have been kind and cooperative in all our
work. We have had to face many difficulties, brought about by the war, but
they have only been a challenge for many of our people to do greater things
for Christ. Now, as never before, we need to go forward with faith and
vigor in the promotion of Bible teaching in the Sunday School and Vacation
Bible School. With more than a million prospects in North Carolina for our
Baptist Sunday Schools, we must not let up anywhere, but quicken our efforts
everywhere.
We express sincere appreciation for our associates in the work who have
rendered excellent service throughout the year : Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lane,
field workers ; Miss Bessie Morgan and Mrs. Ben T. Holden, office secre-
taries ; our approved and qualified workers, Mrs. L. R. O'Brian, Mrs. C. R.
Hinton, Mrs. J. P. Davis, Mrs. C. D. Bain, Mrs. F. A. Bower, Mrs. Clyde
E. Baucom and Mrs. Ford A. Burns. We would express appreciation for the
sympathetic council of our General Secretary, Mr. M. A. Huggins, the generous
and liberal attitude of Dr. T. L. Holcomb and his associates at the Sunday
School Board in Nashville, to Dr. L. L. Carpenter, Editor of the Biblical
Recorder, for space in our Baptist paper, and for the efficient help he has
rendered on the field during the year.
ACHIEVEMENTS
1. State Sunday School Convention:
Our Convention was held at the First Baptist Church, Greensboro, Febru-
ary 26, 27 and 28, with an attendance of more than eight hundred. The
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speakers and conference leaders were at their best and our people were
greatly helped. Dr. Harold W. Tribble, Dr. Sankey L. Blanton, Dr. O. T.
Binkley, Mr. M. A. Huggins, and Dr. L. L. Carpenter were some of the
feature speakers. Mr. J. N. Barnette, Mr. W. P. Phillips, Mr. Sibley Burnette,
Mr. A. V. Washburn, Mr. Herman King, Miss Mary Virginia Lee, Miss
Blanch Linthicum, Miss Allene Bryan, Miss Pauline Hargis, Miss Blossom
Thompson, and Miss Frances Fraser were all with us to lead our con-
ferences.
2. Associational Conferences:
During the week of March 29-April 2 the Sunday School Board forces
joined us in an effort to hold an associational leadership conference in each
of our seventy-one associations. We succeeded in getting into most of the
associations and much good was accomplished.
3. Ridgecrest Assembly:
During the week of July 7-14 a great many of our associational officers
attended the associational officers' conference at Ridgecrest. It was a great
inspiration for them to meet and exchange ideas with leaders from all over
the South. Many goals were set and new resolves made for better work. The
following week, July 14-21, the regular Southwide Conference was held for
officers and teachers. This was a great week and hundreds of our leaders
took advantage of the fine program. They came in such great numbers that
plans are now on foot to have two conferences for this group next year.
4. Enlargement Campaigns:
In the midst of war conditions we went ahead with our weeks of Sunday
School Revival work in the churches. The chart on page 97 shows some
of the results of our efforts. We used some of our best workers and the
people responded in a very fine way. We ask that you join us in expressing
sincere thanks to those who assisted us : J. W. Allen, Esther Adams, Mrs.
C. D. Bain, Blanch Banks, Ethel Brown, Mrs. Ford A. Burns, Mrs. N. C.
Brooks, Rev. Willard Brown, Margaret Jane Childs, Rev. Gilmer Cross, Mrs.
J. P. Davis, Mary Lee Ernest, Lois Edinger, Ella Sue Gravitt, Vivian Grant,
Albertina Hare, Evelyn Hampton, Mrs. C. R. Hinton, Alice Justice, Madge
Lewis, Rev. Lewis Ludlum, Rev. Thomas Lawrence, John Lane, Mrs. John
Lane, Willene Manes, Myra Motley, Mrs. L. R. O'Brian, Howard Olive, Alma
Pearce, Margaret Sparks, Texie Sowers, Mrs. Charles Stephenson, Pearl
York and W. F. West, Jr.
5. Vacation Bible Schools:
More and more our people are realizing the value of the Vacation Bible
School. The lack of transportation has been a great handicap, but our people
have gone on in the face of difficulties and we have a good record this year.
So far we have received 504 reports and others will be coming in. We
wish to thank the following associational workers for their contribution in this
fine work : Miss Ruth Keller, Caldwell ; Miss Madge Lewis, Haywood ; Miss
Zula Rogers, Little River; Miss Ruby Williams, Mount Zion; Miss Willa
Marks, Surry; Miss Evelyn Stewart, Transylvania; Miss Gretchen Johnson,
Tuckaseigee; Miss Vivian Grant, Wilmington; Miss Laura Mae Hilliard,
Yancey ; and Rev. Tom Lawrence, Pilot Mountain.
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6. Training Awards:
Since the new Training Course started October 1, 1934, we have issued in
North Carolina 89,795 book awards. This gives us 7,719 awards for this year.
In addition to this we have had issued in North Carolina since 1934, 2,405
Diplomas, 796 Red Seals, 318 Blue Seals, 186 Gold Seals, and 35 Post Gradu-
ate Diplomas. These awards have been issued to 42,103 different individuals.
Looking Ahead:
(1) Our State Sunday School Convention will be held in the First Baptist
Church, High Point, February 1, 2, 3, 1944. We hope to reach 1,500 people
for this great feast of good things.
(2) During the first week in April the Sunday School Board forces will
join us in conducting one or two associational officers conferences in prepara-
tion for meetings to be held in all the associations immediately following these
training conferences.
(3) The week of June 28-July 4 we plan to have forty associational Super-
intendents at Ridgecrest for the Associational Officers Conference.
(4) July 5-11 and July 12-18 will be Southwide Sunday School weeks
at Ridgecrest. We plan to have 800 people present during the two weeks.
(5) We plan to use a large group of students and school teachers for field
work during the summer of 1944, to conduct Sunday School Revivals, Study
Courses and Vacation Bible Schools.
6. Our Goal for 1944:
1. Teacher Training in 1,000 churches.
2. Ten Thousand Training Awards.
3. Six weeks of simultaneous Sunday School Revival work.
4. Special emphasis upon local training during April and October.
5. Seventy-five Standard Sunday Schools.
6. Special emphasis upon Denominational days in the Sunday School.
7. An increase in Sunday School Enrollment even in a time like this.
8. Emphasis upon teaching for Christian Living.
9. Seven hundred Vacation Bible Schools.
In this tragic hour of world suffering and need, may God give to North
Carolina Baptists a clear understanding of the spiritual needs of the State
and the world. The magnitude and the urgency of the Sunday School task
are overwhelming. Let us join hands, hearts and prayers as we go forward
in the name of Christ.
86.
2. Training Union Division
W. Wilbur Hutchins, Secretary
PERSONNEL
On June 1, 1943, the Reverend Nathan C. Brooks, Jr., who for the past
seven years has been Training Union Secretary for North Carolina, became
pastor of the First Baptist Church of Waynesboro, Georgia. There has been
a steady increase in the growth of the Baptist Training Union work since
1937, the year Mr. Brooks came to the Baptist Training Union Department.
His spiritual depth and far-sighted vision permeated the spirit of Training
Annual of Session 1943 99
Union work in North Carolina. He is especially remembered for the superior
program he prepared annually for the State Assembly at Ridgecrest.
Mrs. Brooks, his capable companion, gave admirable assistance in the vari-
ous times she helped on the field and directed the work of the Junior Depart-
ment.
One of the many fine contributions Mr. Brooks made to the work was the
emphasis he placed on the "entire church family in Training Union and a
family altar in every home." Baptist churches of North Carolina have been
blessed by Mr. Brooks' consecration and intelligent planning.
On October 11, 1943, the Reverend W. Wilbur Hutchins, formerly pastor
of the Southside Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N. C, assumed the secre-
taryship. He has already made evident a spiritual insight and vision of Train-
ing Union work which will lead in its continued growth.
During the summer months Mr. Harold McManus, who is a student at the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ; Miss Louise Paschall, who is a stu-
dent at the W. M. U. Training School ; and Miss Cleo Mitchell, who is now a
faculty member in the Department of Religion and Student Secretary at
Meredith College, assisted in the field program.
Miss Margaret Sparks, Intermediate Leader, began her second year of
service with the Department on September 1. We are indeed fortunate to have
her lead the Intermediates of our state and they have already manifested their
love for her. Her leadership in the work during the time the Department was
without a Secretary was of inestimable value.
Miss Mary Lou Wall, Office Secretary, is completing her seventh year with
the Baptist State Convention. During the four and one-half months the
Training Union Department was without a Secretary, Miss Wall's knowledge
of the work kept it on it's upward growth.
SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 1943
In spite of war-time conditions, the Training Union Department maintained
a worthy and active program in 1943.
1. This year associational officers were brought together in one of two
Training Meetings in the state under the leadership of the Southwide Train-
ing Union force. We expect more active growth in Training Union work in
the associations because of this period of training.
2. An Associational Enlargement Campaign was sponsored in the Robeson
Association last April with sixteen churches participating.
3. Ten Regional Conventions were held in the spring with a total regis-
tration of 2,097.
4. One thousand, two hundred twenty-seven persons registered for the State
Assembly at Ridgecrest. Dr. J. Clyde Turner brought the series of evening
messages.
5. There were more than 800 North Carolinians who attended the two
Southwide Training Union Conferences at Ridgecrest. This means a total of
2,027 North Carolina Baptists were reached by the Training Union meetings
at Ridgecrest in July.
6. As shown in the chart on page 102, 63 churches were reached this
summer by training courses and enlargement campaigns with leadership of the
summer workers and the State Department.
100 N. C. Baptist State Convention
7. In the spring Mr. Brooks assisted with an Enlargement Campaign in
Louisiana and in the fall Miss Sparks assisted with one in South Carolina.
Miss Sparks also served on the faculty of the two Southwide Training Union
weeks at Ridgecrest.
8. The chart on page 103, pictures the work of the state as reported
through the office in Raleigh. It might be stated here that a partial loss in
units, directors, and churches having Training Union work is due to the
fact that we, at the end of September each year, discard all records in our
files from which we have had no information for three years. Thus, it is
quite important that we urge each church in the state having Training Union
work of any kind to report same to us at least once a year, affording us an
opportunity to have up-to-date information in our files at the time the annual
report is made.
LOOKING AHEAD
Nineteen forty- four presents itself as a year of opportunity. Careful and
prayerful planning will be necessary if we prepare adequately to meet the
following needs :
1. Feverishness and anxiety caused by war-time conditions, may be uncon-
sciously causing our people of the local church to diminish their efforts. As
never before in our history we need to enlarge ! Not only is it vital that we
"keep the home fires burning" but we need to "throw on another log" in
every place possible so that the post-war world will find us ready to meet
the training needs of our people.
2. Our churches are finding it increasingly difficult to enlist leadership in
the various phases of church activities. This year we will vigorously attempt to
strengthen our Adult work which will not only produce more efficient and
trained leaders in our churches, but will result in more Young People enlisted
in Training Union work and more positive Christian homes. This in turn
will decrease juvenile delinquency and similar problems.
3. At this crucial stage in our world history, there is a cry for Christian
citizenship. It is our plan to emphasize in our Training Union work the
necessity of our taking a decisive stand against the sale of alcoholic beverages
and other such current evils which face us. We purpose to guide our people
to a consciousness of civic righteousness, the need for Christian political leaders,
and the need for informed, consecrated voters.
4. Due to the numerous influences of various attitudes and philosophies con-
cerning the lack of necessity for denominations, we propose to put a major
emphasis on our Baptist doctrines and denominational life.
5. During these busy days, filled with so many civic and social activities,
we will seek through the Training Union to stress the church-centered life.
It is our hope to see adequate provision for: (a) mental growth through an
increased emphasis on Bible study and the study course program; (b) physical
and social growth through stewardship, temperance, and recreational pro-
gram; (c) spiritual growth through an emphasis on evangelism and devotional
life which will lead to missionary vision and a consciousness of world brother-
hood.
We feel that if these above factors are majored upon along with the other
endeavors of the Training Union program, our Baptist Adults, because of an
increased faith will find balance, poise, and security even in these chaotic' days,
and our Young People, Intermediates, and Juniors will in turn be provided
Annual of Session 1943 101
with proper guidance in facing the choices necessary for them to make, many
of whom will dedicate their lives for definite religious service.
Unless the Training Union Department is provided with at least two more
workers, a consecrated Young People's and Junior Leader, the work will be
greatly handicapped in trying to reach the above goals.
DEDICATION
We are dedicated to the Christian conviction that any vital religious train-
ing must be the superstructure on the foundation of a personal faith in God.
But Christian training will open the channels through which faith in Christ
can effectively express itself. So we dedicate ourselves with the best that is
in us, under God, to :
1. Work with other Baptist Christians to help awaken in the masses of our
people a "sense of need" for training as a necessary corollary of evangelism.
2. Try to gain for the training ministry of our churches a more strategic
place in the thinking and planning of all our leadership.
3. Use training, and organization for training, not as an end in itself, but
as a tool, an instrument given us by God to use for him as good stewards of
the manifold grace of God, in helping all our people to develop intelligent
and constructive understanding of the spiritual issues of our day, to the end
that we may be laborers with Him in the coming Kingdom of Heaven.
87.
3. Division of Student Work
R. T. Howerton, Jr., Secretary
Personnel
The Student Division is happy to introduce several new personalities on its
staff, as well as to present some veterans in student work. Meredith College
is justly proud of its new Director of Religious Activities, Miss Cleo Mitchell,
who guides the work of Meredith's Baptist Student Union with expert skill,
earned in her experience as student secretary at the Woman's College in
Greensboro, and in her three years of graduate study at Yale University
Divinity School in the field of student religious work, which led to her B.D.
and M.A. degrees. A sample of her ability to secure student cooperation is her
recent stewardship drive. The students of Meredith have signed pledges
directly to their churches in Raleigh amounting to $2,000. In return the
churches have pledged to the students $500 with which to finance the budget
of the Baptist Student Union of Meredith College.
Miss Louise Green, known among students at Appalachian as "Maw
Green," is by no means elderly. Her nickname is evidence of her understand-
ing personality and spiritual depth. The students go to her with all kinds of
problems, find solutions, and send their friends. Miss Green is from Auburn
University in Alabama, where for four years she was effectively active on the
campus of B. S. U. Council. After teaching school a year, she followed her
heart to student work in North Carolina, coming in August, following the
resignation of Mrs. J. Elwood Roberts in June.
The marriage of Miss Laura Bateman to Lt. John E. Lawrence (Navy)
left a vacancy at the student house in Greensboro, which was filled in Sep-
tember by Mrs. Howard G. McClain, formerly Miss Barbara Behrman of
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TRAINING UNION CHART NO. 2
103
Churches
Units
Total
Num-
ber
Units
Net Gain
or Loss
in Units
Study
Course
Awards
Jan.-
Sept.
Associations
With
T. U.
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tors
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People
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8
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16
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19
22
35
23
15
14
29
4
8
38
6
1
20
11
41
26
27
17
31
25
17
17
29
22
9
14
10
2
4
8
15
8
14
10
13
15
23
2
7
18
8
11
8
1
6
1
1
3
6
3
8
6
21
2
5
4
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20
22
25
19
15
13
8
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21
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6
7
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5
18
19
31
21
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13
29
3
8
37
6
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10
40
23
26
17
25
23
16
14
27
21
9
12
10
2
3
8
13
5
14
8
12
14
21
2
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18
7
10
8
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10
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7
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115
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74
81
48
36
11
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5
20
27
177
33
57
43
90
91
52
40
133
16
35
108
15
1
49
23
139
101
93
59
78
85
60
40
66
112
32
71
36
1
7
19
37
12
47
19
26
24
82
17
54
18
36
11
2
Gain 5
Same
Loss 3
Same
Same
Loss 3
Same
Loss 4
Gain 1
Gain 1
Loss 1
Same
Loss IS
Loss 17
Gain 9
Gain 14
Loss 1
Loss 7
Loss 10
Loss 12
Same
Loss 4
Gain 4
Loss 1
Gain 5
Gain 3
Loss 2
Gain 3
Loss 1
Gain 3
Gain 5
Loss 4
Gain 3
Loss 45
Gain 5
Loss 16
Loss 2
Loss 4
Same
Loss 4
Loss 10
Loss 8
Loss 2
Loss 8
Loss 2
Loss 3
Gain 16
Loss 6
Loss 13
Gain 9
Loss 4
Loss 8
Same
Loss 24
Loss 1
Same
Loss 8
Loss 12
Same
Loss 2
Loss 2
Gain 4
Loss 40
Gain 7
Loss 1
Loss 3
Loss 15
Same
Gain 19
Loss 7
Loss 1
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7
3
226
12
Brushy Mountain
75
335
401
215
360
Catawba River
431
31
57
61
Dock
34
197
Elkin
64
51
French Broad
2
796
264
337
127
Kings Mountain
336
189
251
Macon County
Mecklenburg
189
458
132
20
270
169
New South River
168
98
665
Pilot Mountain
113
154
299
685
Rowan
Sandy Creek
74
87
332
368
South Mountain
16
276
138
Stone Mountain
SO
128
Tennessee River
28
43
Transylvania
12
70
13
West Chowan
West Liberty
Western N. C
104
1
228
Yadkin
34
197
Burnt Swamp
91
Totals
1,024
945
465
767
786
679
576
3,273
Net Loss
221
10,770
104 N. C. Baptist State Convention
Meredith and Greensboro. Mrs. McClain will continue her splendid work at
the Woman's College until the return of Mrs. Lawrence sometime in December.
Following a doctor's order for a two month's rest at her Greenville,
Alabama home, Miss Mary Lee Ernest returned in September to the Student
House at E. C. T. C. to continue her well-rounded program of promotion,
guidance and counselling.
The Baptist men of N. C. State have as their part-time student secretary
Mr. David Harris, who has been working since April in enlisting the Baptist
students in the churches of Raleigh.
For years the students of Duke University have presented a challenge to
Durham pastors and the student department. A turn for the better came with
the advent of Dr. C. Sylvester Green to the Duke campus as Director of
Religious Activities. He will greatly assist the newly-appointed part-time
student secretary, Mr. Harold Townsend, a student at Duke University Divinity
School, recent graduate of Wake Forest College, where he served as B. S. U.
president.
Mrs. Howard L. Bowman, graduate of Mars Hill, who served as office
secretary for the student department for two years, resigned in order to finish
work toward her B. A. degree at Meredith College. She was succeeded by
Miss Adelaide Charles, Meredith '43, of Winston- Salem.
The work of these six full-time and two part-time secretaries is supple-
mented by pastors in college centers, faculty advisers, directors of religious
activities, and friends of college students all over the State.
Campus Organizations
Listed below are the Baptist Student Union presidents with their pastors
and faculty advisers. (See Chart).
State Officers
North Carolina Baptist Student Union Officers, 1943-44:
President Calvin Knight Wake Forest
Enlistment Vice-President . .Una Lee Richardson A. S. T. C.
Social Vice-President Elizabeth Shelton Meredith
Devotional Vice-President Jane Carroll W. C. U. N. C.
Secretary-Treasurer Florence Gordon Mars ' Hill
Publicity Director Richard Duncan N. S. State
"Baptist Student" Repr Jim Satterwhite Bowman Gray
Music Director Elizabeth White Atlantic Christian
Program for the Year
1. Local
The major features of the year's activity are local, statewide and south-
wide in nature. Generally, the activities of the Baptist Student Union on the
campus include the following : September : Pre-school planning retreat, Maga-
zine campaign, Welcoming social, Organization of S. S., B. T. U., Y. W. A.,
prayer meetings, Bible study groups, Join-the-Church-Sunday ; October-Nov-
ember : Stewardship drive, study courses, delegations to State Student Conven-
tion, Thanksgiving services, socials ; December : Help to needy groups, Student
Night at Christmas ; January : Join-the-Church-Sunday, study courses, inven-
tory of year's work; February: Religious emphasis week; March: Mission
Annual of Session 1943 105
Study course; April: Election of officers, Spring retreats for officers, Volun-
teering for summer service ; May : Installation Banquet, M other's Day pro-
grams ; June: Southwith B. S. U. Conference, Ridgecrest; June- July-August,
S. S., and B. T. U. field work.
2. Statewide
Statewide activities during the year were as follows : Planning Conference
for remainder of year's work, January 29-30, held at Pullen Memorial in
Raleigh, with 35 students and secretaries attending; April 10-11, Eastern
Spring Retreat, 125 newly elected officers attending; April 17-18, Western
Spring Retreat, Ridgecrest, 80 attending; Annual Baptist Student Convention,
First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, 300 out-of-town registrants, total
attending, 550.
During the spring Miss Mary Nance Daniel, Southwide Associate in the
Student Department visited North Carolina to conduct conferences at the
Spring Retreats. While here she visited and spoke at the Woman's College,
U. N. C, Baptist Hospital, and Duke University.
Dr. Claude U. Broach, also Southwide Associate in the Student Depart-
ment, visited the State in May. He spoke at Wake Forest, Meredith, Duke,
U. N. C, W. C. U. N. C, Mars Hill, and N. C. State.
The Annual Student Convention
The First Baptist Church of Winston-Salem was host to the 300 out-of-
town students who attended the Annual Baptist Convention October 22-24.
The total in attendance was around 550. Speakers and their topics were as
follows : Rev. Francis W. McPeek, of the Washington Federation of Churches,
"The Church Against Crime" ; Dr. Claude U. Broach, "B. S. U. Serving the
Changing Campus" ; Dr. Harold W. Tribble, two addresses on "Christ Meets
the Needs of the World"; and Dr. J. W. "Bill" Marshall, "I Was Hungry
and Ye Gave Me Meat." Dr. Broach taught the Sunday School lesson, for
which the entire student delegation met in a group with the Young People's
Department of the Sunday School. The lesson was taught by means of a
Panel discussion.
Two one-hour forum discussions were lead by outstanding thinkers, who
are listed here with their subjects: "Great Christian Affirmations, Dr. Kelley
Barnett; "The Spiritual Peril of Moral Compromise," Dr. O. T. Binkley;
"Private Devotion and Public Worship," Dr. Qaude U. Broach; "Our Racial
Minorities," Mr. Edwin L. Duckies, field Secretary for American Friends
Service Committee ; "Vocational Guidance in a World at War," Dr. Alphonse
Heninburg, National Urban League ; "Winning the World to Christ," Dr. J. W.
Marshall, Foreign Mission Board.
Dr. C. C. Carpenter, Dean of the Bowman Gray Medical School, was
chairman of the Panel Quiz, during which students questioned each of the
above leaders from the floor, the leaders responding with invaluable answers
and opinions.
Dr. Ralph A. Herring delivered the convention sermon using the keynote,
"In God We Trust," as his topic. The message was inspiring and led the
students to the spiritual climax of the meeting. The Holy Spirit was inter-
preted in the sermon as the indispensable energizing power for Christian
living.
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Southwide
The annual Southwide B. S. U. Conference at Ridgecrest June 9-16 was
attended by 1,415 students, 110 of them North Carolinians. After welcoming
the delegations with a reception in the hotel lobby, they participated in a
challenging and inspiring program, the largest of its kind in the world.
Prospects
The needs of the students of the State and the responsibility of the Student
Department will be met only when there are fully qualified student secre-
taries on more of our larger college and university campuses. Obviously, student
religious work must be carried on under adequate adult leadership. A com-
parison of student work on campuses served by full time secretaries with
the work on campuses where there are none, will prove the great value of
the qualified student secretary. Experience has shown that in a short while
the student secretary, from a financial point of view alone, will more than
pay his way by securing contributions to local churches from students while
they are in college. The greater value of the local secretary in developing
leadership among our college youth can only be measured by the history of
this denomination in years to come.
A plea is here made, also, for ministers, in college communities to count
college students equally as valuable to their churches as business men and
women and other adults. College students are not transients. They are not
children. They are adults, or fast becoming. They are prospects for full
membership in churches. Pastors and other church workers would make no
mistake to look on them as such, and to visit them with the persistence equal
to that applied to business men, school teachers, and professional people. It
is the task of the student department to help the churches in this work.
Pastors of students who leave home for college should encourage them to
take with them their church letters, or to write for them immediately upon
joining a church in" the college center. The help of pastors in college com-
munities, already most genuine and generous, would be invaluable if directed
toward the goal of securing the full membership of college students.
One of the leading churches in the State has abolished the affiliatory or
watch-care status for new-comers, encouraging full membership only. Full
church membership is a necessary basis for the highest Christian living which
is the aim of all our striving.
88.
B. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN THE COLLEGES
1. Reports of the Colleges
Elsewhere in this report will be found references to the educational debt
of the Convention, the amount furnished the several colleges for current
support, and to a statement concerning our general educational problems.
Brief reports from the colleges, submitted by the presidents of the various
schools, and statistical exhibits follow.
108 N. C. Baptist State Convention
89.
(a) CAMPBELL COLLEGE
B. F. McLeod, President of Board of Trustees
L. H. Campbell, President
War has taken from and added to. Vacant rooms in the dormitories for
boys constantly remind us of war's heavy toll upon every constructive agency.
But the tragedy of this whole catastrophe strengthens the conviction that the
promotion of intelligent goodness, the good of Christian Education, is the
only sure way out. The importance of the truly Christian College in world
reconstruction is magnified as the ruins wrought by pagan idealogies become
more appalling.
A reduction of 75 is shown in the overall enrollment from last year. A
large number of girls on the campus is more than offset by the greater reduc-
tion in resident boys and day students. The classification cards show a decreased
number registered for liberal arts courses, with an increase in Commercial
Education and college preparatory classes.
In spite of heavy losses incurred during last year to the armed services,
the auditor's report shows that the financial conditions of the college is excel-
lent. Final payment has this year been made on the $20,000 loan negotiated
some years ago to repair the D. Rich Administration building. At the same
time the J. A. Campbell home place, containing approximately 115 acres, has
been purchased and paid for without incurring a loan. Henceforth this property,
for years leased as the college dairy and stock farm, can be used rent-free
and made to supply essential foods difficult to purchase on the market even
at higher cost.
Despite many perplexing problems experienced in operating a small
denominational college in war time, certain advantages are enjoyed by such
institutions not taken over partially or wholly by the government for defense
training. Less regimentation, fewer distractions, and greater spiritual freedom
must now exist; and for the future, less likelihood of entangling alliances.
At the same time it is hoped that as pressure of outward circumstances in-
creases, a correspondingly greater reliance upon denominational cooperation
may produce a closer fellowship with other Baptist institutions and agencies.
Every effort is being made to maintain high scholastic standards in spite
of the teacher shortage. Requirements of the Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools are being observed, in order that the college's mem-
bership may continue unquestioned.
90.
(b) CHOWAN COLLEGE
J. Mayon Parker, President of Board of Trustees
Faced with a war-born decline in enrollment, with sharply increasing
operating costs for this reason as well as from the general affect of the
war to increase operating costs, and with the difficult task of maintaining
a capable faculty and administration against the competition of the constant
drain of man- and woman-power to the armed forces, action suspensing
Chowan College for the duration of the present national emergency was taken
by its Board of Trustees at the close of the 1942-43 session of the school.
The action was taken for the purpose of conserving the assets and endow-
ment of the college for service in the years of peace following this great
Annual of Session 1943 109
conflict when youth again will be seeking Christian training for living rather
than driven by necessity as at present to learn the skills of war. The sus-
pension was achieved with all assets and endowment intact, and with all
current obligations discharged.
91.
(c) GARDNER-WEBB
Phil L. Elliott, President
(No report received)
92.
(d) MARS HILL COLLEGE
E. F. Watson, President of Board of Trustees
Hoyt Blackwell, President
The eighty-eighth session of Mars Hill College is gratifying from many
points of view. The present enrollment is 657 regular college students and
15 special students. Most of the specials are young children of the com-
munity who are taking music. In the regular college group there are 173
young men and 484 young women. In this number are 23 ministerial students
and 2 children of missionaries. Of the college students, 627 are church mem-
bers. Dr. Theodore F. Adams of Richmond is now leading us in our annual
revival meeting. We believe that his Christian personality, his gospel sermons,
and the Christian atmosphere of the campus and of the local church will be
the means of reaching many of the 25 members of our college family who
have not yet publicly named Christ as their Saviour and Lord.
The college has lost several of its teachers to the armed forces. All neces-
sary adjustments and replacements have been made, and the present faculty
and general staff are capable and aggressively Christian. Those who began
their work with us at the beginning of the present year are : Miss Mattie
Russell, history ; Mr. C. H. Sullivan, mathematics and physics ; Miss Anne
Clayton, physical education; Mrs. Winifred Thurlow, dietitian; Mrs. Paul
Dunstan, assistant in the library ; Miss Brucie Barnes, hostess in Edna Moore
and New dormitories; Mrs. W. S. Sparks, hostess in Rivermont and cottages
for young men; Mrs. A. K. Cheek, secretary to the Registrar; Miss Edith
Swann, bookkeeper.
The first term of the summer school as an integral part of the regular
schedule of the college was most satisfactory. Much credit is due Dean R. M.
Lee, the faculty, and those in the offices for this achievement. There were
142 students enrolled; the budget was paid in full without drawing upon the
resources of the college treasury ; and prospects for the coming summer are
favorable.
For the calendar year 1942, the Convention made an appropriation of
$9,500 to Mars Hill for current support. For the present calendar year, 1943,
this appropriation was increased to $15,000. Had it not been for the added
amount of $5,500 the loss from student tuition and fees and the loss of
$9,500 through NYA might have been critical. The college is keenly aware of
its added obligation to this Convention. Its constant purpose shall be dedicate
its all to Christ-permeated education.
The college is now entering upon the ninth year of its present enlargement
and endowment program. Since this movement was launched approximately
$500,000 in new buildings, equipment, repairs to old buildings, and improve-
110 N. C. Baptist State Convention
ments generally has been added to its physical resources. It will require at least
another $500,000 to accomplish the goal which has been set. Those who have
brought us to the half-way mark will let nothing turn them aside until this
work is done.
93.
(a) MEREDITH COLLEGE
W. H. Weatherspoon, President of Board of Trustees
Carlyle Campbell, President
The total enrollment for 1942-43 was 461. Students registered from three
foreign countries, 13 states, and 72 counties in North Carolina. The academic
classification of the 416 regular college students shows 132 freshmen, 83
sophomores, 90 juniors, and 111 seniors. According to denominational affiliation,
indicated at the beginning of the year, there were 318 Baptists, 54 Methodists,
20 Presbyterians, 21 members of other denominational groups, and 21 unidenti-
fied with any church. In the student body were 28 daughters of ministers, and
six daughters of missionaries.
The auditor's report on operations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943,
indicates an income of $263,750.54, and expenditures amounting to $252,922.43.
Almost 72% of the total income was received from students. Over 99% of
student accounts receivable had been paid in cash before the end of the year.
The College received in gifts during the year $18,804.50.
It is impossible in this brief report to make a detailed summary or evalua-
tion of the year's activities. Yet, in spite of the dislocations and pressures of
a war economy, we feel that the achievement of the year was essentially
commendable. Special reference is made to Religious Emphasis Week, in
February, under the leadership of Dr. Ralph A. Herring, of Winston-Salem.
We record with deep regret the death of Mr. F. B. Hamrick on May 24, 1943;
since 1929 he had been the efficient and greatly beloved bursar and treasurer
of the College.
The year 1943-44 has begun auspiciously. We have the largest enrollment
since 1940, and the largest freshman class since 1938. We are equally pleased
with the apparent ability and promise of the new students admitted. An im-
proved financial situation made possible some important renovations to the
plant during the summer. Under the guidance of Miss Cleo Mitchell, religious
counselor and instructor in the department of religion, we are developing a
specific program for the training of church workers.
We are now preparing to launch the expansion program referred to in
this report a year ago. During the spring and summer educational experts made
a survey of the College and its constituency, and on the basis of their report
the Board of Trustees has authorized a financial campaign for $565,000, for
buildings, additions to endowment, and permanent improvements. Of this
amount, $65,000 is already in hand. In this challenging and sacred enterprise,
we confidently expect the interest and support of our Baptist people.
94.
(f) WAKE FOREST COLLEGE
John A. Oates, President of Board of Trustees
T. D. Kitchin, President
Wake Forest College reports the smallest enrollment since 1910. That year
there were 403 students in the college. At present there are 448, not including
Annual of Session 1943 111
students in the medical school. Many of these are sixteen and seventeen year-
old freshmen and will not be allowed to stay in college long. Since Pearl
Harbor 1,050 students have been lost from our classrooms to the Armed
Forces.
Up to the present we have lost twenty members of the instructional staff
to the service. No additions have been made to the faculty since the last
meeting of the Convention.
The Law School of the college has suffered a heavy loss in enrollment
during the war period as all other law schools in the country. By an earlier
order of the Board of Trustees the Law School was to be kept open if at all
possible to do so. The solution to the problem came in the form of a merger
with the law school of Duke University. Neither law school loses its identity
in the merger, both seemed to be accommodated and the plan is working out
satisfactorily. For the present the students registered in both law schools are
being taught on the Duke University campus. The experience thus far com-
mends the merger which is wholly an emergency measure.
The Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College, located
here in Winston-Salem, has had a more fortunate experience than the Law
School. This is because of the increased demand for medical education in
order to meet the needs of the Armed Forces and the depleted service among
civilians as well. The enrollment in the Medical School is all that can be
accommodated and there is a long waiting list. The total enrollment in the
Medical School is now 164 and is composed of civilian students and students
inducted into the Army and Navy under the Specialized Training Program.
The college will confer the M. D. degree on 34 members of the senior class
the 21st of December. Classes enter each nine months and classes will also
be graduating at the same intervals.
A unit of the Army Finance School was established at Wake Forest
College in August, 1942. This at one time seemed to be a fortunate opportunity
for the college for the duration. A highly select group of men were sent to
the campus for periods of twelve weeks' training. They came from practically
all states in the Union and they represent the kind of men that we are glad
to have as friends throughout the entire country. Our relationships with the
men and the officers have been mutually pleasant and the officers have been
thoroughly satisfied with the college and the opportunities offered them.
The War Department has given notice however, that by January 15 the
Army Finance School at Wake Forest College would be wholly moved back
to its home post at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. You will be interested to
know why this change of plan has come about. Following World War No. 1,
a small Army Finance School has been in operation at Fort Benjamin Harri-
son for the training of men in handling the government finances in Army
posts and stations. With the great increase of the Army, the Finance School
had to be increased. There was not room for it at the original post at that
time and they sought opportunity at Wake Forest College for the non-com-
missioned branch. There is now plenty of space available at Fort Benjamin
Harrison and the Army's policy of conservation of funds now warrants the
return of the Wake Forest Finance School to its permanent post. I quote the
following statement from the Headquarters Army Service Forces :
"May I stress the fact that the withdrawal is not to be inter-
preted in any sense as dissatisfaction with the facilities or man-
112 N. C. Baptist State Convention
agement of the school. On the contrary, it is evident from my
discussions with those of my staff who are intimately familiar
with Wake Forest that they think very highly of the school and
are deeply conscious of the contribution this school has made and
continues to make towards the war effort."
The removal of the Finance School is naturally a disappointment, coming
in the midst of the duration, because the college has been put to considerable
expense in modifications in order to meet the needs of our Finance Unit.
Furthermore, it is especially bad for the contract to be cancelled in the
middle of the college fiscal year because our budget for 1943-44 was set up in
the light of a clear statement that our contract with the Army would run
until June 30, 1944. We thought nothing could be surer than a government
contract.
The college made, in December 1942, application for a unit of the Army
Specialized Training Program. In due time Wake Forest College was desig-
nated by the Army for the establishment on our campus of a pre-medical unit.
The college was inspected by several officials at various times and was heartily
approved. But our experience is similar to the experience of other institutions
designated by the Army for pre-medical training in our general area, namely,
the units have not been activated yet. There is at least uncertainty in the mind
of all, perhaps the Army itself, concerning its progress in this particular and
restricted field. The Navy, however, has activated pre-medical units at several
nearby institutions but the Army operates on a different program. Upon the
advice of inspectors, we have gone to some expense already in getting ready for
the pre-medical unit.
I mention these matters because you are entitled to have full information.
The work goes on notwithstanding the distractions and inconveniences of war.
The courses most in demand are kept available. The purpose and spirit of
the college are maintained but there are financial problems arising inevitably
in the situation that I have just described.
95.
(g) WINGATE JUNIOR COLLEGE
P. B. Upchurch, President of Board of Trustees
C. C. Burris, President
Wingate College closed its 46th session the last of May, and the fiscal
year June IS. The enrollment for the year was below normal for men, but
above normal for women, which was perfectly natural, due to the emergency.
Despite the war our faculty was held intact, and the same is true for the
1943-44 session. Only a few changes have been made. Many of our boys were
called away, but many were permitted to finish their year's work.
From a financial standpoint, we had our best year, operating with a sur-
plus of income over expenses. We have been able to do this for the last five
years due to increase in gifts from the churches and the Baptist State Con-
vention and by practicing strict economy.
The College has launched its 50th anniversary campaign for new buildings
and equipment, payment of debt, and for a general plant renovation. Mr. Joel
Herren, as Alumni Secretary, is in charge of this campaign and has already
begun his work with marked results.,
Wingate is located in the center of the population of the two Carolinas
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and is surrounded by thousands of Baptists who have the College on their
hearts. The College wishes to be a part of the Baptist Educational program
in North Carolina, even though it could continue the present Associational
ownership.
It is the dawn — the new day is at hand. Will Baptists of North Carolina
seize the day and through Christian Education make it the day in which the
King shall reign?
96.
V. BENEVOLENCE
Under the present arrangement we think of the orphanage, hospital and
aged ministers' relief when the word "benevolence" is mentioned. We should
not think of the Ministers' Retirement Plan as benevolence. However, we
include a statement here concerning it, because it is closely akin to relief and
both are administered by the Relief and Annuity Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention.
97.
A. RELIEF AND ANNUITY
1. Relief
We are glad to print here for the information of the Convention, and for
future reference, facts about relief and annuity as furnished us by Secretary
Watts of the Relief and Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
We call attention to the fact that the Relief and Annuity Board has many
different funds and plans, and that beneficiaries in North Carolina under all
these plans have received, or will receive during 1943 more than $65,000.
(a) Relief Department
Beneficiaries receiving aid during 1943 : Pastors 56, Widows 67, Total
123, receiving payments of $10,484.25
(b) Annuity Department
(Old) Annuity Fund:
Number of Members paying dues 90
Age Annuitants 44, receiving annually $22,000.00
Disability 17, receiving annually 8,500.00
Widows 36, receiving annually 10,800.00
Total $41,300.00
Members in Baptist Boards Employees Retirement Plan State Board 34.
No annuitants at present.
Institutional Employees Retirement Plan for Orphanages 65.
Number Annuitants 16, receiving annually $4,898.16
Educational Institutions Employees Retirement Plan —
Mars Hill College— 14.
No annuitants at present.
Age Security Plan :
Number of persons participating 2.
Churches participating 2.
No beneficiaries at present.
Service Annuity Plan: (Closed to New Members).
Annuitants 1, Disability annuitant receiving annually $405.12
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(c) Ministers' Retirement Plan
Total Certificates Issued 454
Churches Cooperating 642
Number receiving age annuities 15, receiving annually $5,642.52
Number receiving disability annuities 4, receiving annually 1,928.76
Number Widows 5, receiving annually 778.80
Total $8,350.08
Annual benefits paid in North Carolina under all plans — Relief
and Annuity for the year of 1943 $65,437.61
98.
2. Orphanage
Zeno Wall, President of Board of Trustees
I. G. Greer, General Superintendent
Article I of our constitution says : "This institution shall be known as the
Baptist Orphanage of North Carolina, Incorporated, formerly known as
Thomasville Baptist Orphanage and later known as the Mills Home, accord-
ing to its amended charter, and shall have for its object the support and caring
for and training of dependent children of the white race."
There are two officials of the Orphanage, a general superintendent and
a treasurer. Mr. I. G. Greer is the general superintendent and Mr. R. D.
Covington is treasurer. Their offices are in Thomasville and are located on
the Mills Home grounds.
The Orphanage maintains two homes, the Mills Home in Thomasville and
the Kennedy Home near Kinston. These are not two orphanages but are the
two homes of the Baptist Orphanage. Each of these homes has a superintendent
but neither has a separate treasurer, for the Orphanage treasurer handles all
of the finances of both homes. Miss Sarah E. Elmore is superintendent of
Mills Home and Rev. W. C. Reed is superintendent of Kennedy Home.
The Social Service Department, Miss Hattie Edwards, director, receives
all applications for the entrance of children into the Orphanage and after
investigation makes recommendation to the general superintendent who makes
the final decision. He says whether the child is to be accepted and if so into
which home. If it seems best he places the child in a boarding home or estab-
lishes a mothers' aid home.
We have cared for during 1942, 687 in the two homes, 35 in boarding
homes and 74 in their own homes. We have been able to place a larger num-
ber than ever before, this enabling us to be of service to more children.
Attendance in school reached almost 99 per cent due to the general good
health of the children and the almost total absence of any contagious diseases.
As a result of good food, regular hours and the cooperation of all work-
ers, the health of our children is far above that of the outside population.
Many activities are involved in the production of good food. The farm
from which we receive fresh vegetables in abundance along with pork and
beef, the dairy farm from which each child received a quart of whole milk
daily, the poultry yard where all of our chickens and eggs are produced, and
the 100,000 half gallon jars that are filled with every kind of fruit and vegetable
by our friends all over North Carolina. All of these good things are sent
out to our 19 kitchens of the two homes where they are prepared as well
balanced meals under the supervision of trained workers.
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Clothing to a great extent is made by the children, with the aid of compe-
tent supervisors.
More than 10,000 pieces pass through the two laundries each week. The
greater part of this work is done by the girls. Colored help is employed for
the heaviest of the labor.
The physical education program goes on the year round with trained direc-
tors in charge.
A graded Sunday school, B. T. U., and W. M. U., both at Kennedy Home
and Mills Home help in rounding out the lives of our boys and girls.
Charity and Children is published each week at Mills Home and covers the
activities of the entire Orphanage. Along with the paper a profitable com-
mercial printing shop is maintained and large numbers of our boys are trained.
One of the greatest assets of this Orphanage is the love of its many friends
who support it. Our total gifts for 1942 through the current fund from
churches and Sunday schools were $221,957.81. This includes the $100,197.54
received during the Thanksgiving period.
The continuation of the monthly offerings from the Sunday schools
climaxed by another Thanksgiving offering as good or better than the one of
last year will make it possible for us to meet the demands being placed upon
us during these strenuous times.
We must never lose sight of the one chief purpose of the Orphanage,
and that is making worth while men and women out of dependent boys
and girls.
99.
3. Hospital
J. S. Lynch, President of Board of Trustees
Smith Hagaman, Superintendent
GENERAL CONSIDERATION
The Board of Trustees of the hospital is happy to report satisfactory prog-
ress towards the realization of the goal of rendering complete medical service
to all who come to its doors. The Board of Trustees in their first report
to the Convention in 1923 made the following statement : "Hospital facilities
can be found in almost every town in the state, and if the Baptist Hospital
has no special mission for its constituency it cannot hope to command the
patronage of the public." This statement is even more true today in view
of the fact that many towns and counties have since opened small hospitals
for purely local service. The Baptist Hospital is state wide in its service,
but more important, the coming of the Wake Forest Medical School with its
staff of specialists, highly trained in many fields of medicine, enables the
hospital to more fully fulfill its obligation as expressed by the Trustees in this
first report to the Convention.
PROFESSIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
When the new wing was opened in 1941, the hospital was able to give
very little more than simple care for the ordinary illness. We now have an
institution that is equipped, and provides the professional talent, to care for
practically any illness that may be encountered. We are happy to report
the addition to the staff during the year of a brain surgeon. Many cases that
previously had to be sent home to die or remain permanent invalids can now
be restored to health and usefulness.
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The hospital is now fully approved by the American College of Surgeons.
In the field of education, it enjoys the approval of the American Medical
Association for post graduate education in training internes and advanced
courses in medicine, surgery, radiology, anesthesiology, urology, obstetrics and
gynecology, pediatrics, pathology, and thoracic surgery. We are one of twenty
hospitals in the United States, out of a total of 6,345, that is approved for
advanced training in surgery of the chest and lungs. In addition, we operate
approved schools for x-ray technicians, anesthetists, laboratory technicians,
and dietitians. Since the beginning of the expanded program, the hospital
has trained 51 young men and women in these special fields.
CHARITY SERVICE
For the year October 1, 1941 to October 1, 1942 we treated in the hospital
6,172 patients. Of these 1,228, or 20.9%, were service or charity patients.
For this year, from October 1, 1942 to October 1, 1943, we treated in the
hospital 7,565 patients. Of these 2,230, or 29.5%, were service or charity.
In addition to those treated in the hospital, an outpatient department is oper-
ated for the treatment of charity cases whose illness is not of such nature as
to need hospital care. In this way we cared for 3,362 visits during the year
October 1, 1941 to October 1, 1942; and for the year October 1, 1942 to
October 1, 1943 we cared for 6,294 visits which represents an increase of
87.2% in this charity service. In the combined hospital, or inpatient charity
and outpatient or ambulatory charity rendered, we have during the year
October 1, 1942 to October 1, 1943 increased our ministry bv 95.8%
FINANCIAL
On October 1, 1942 your hospital had completed its building and installed
most of its equipment at a total cost of $647,246.29. Of this amount, $135,000
was donated by Mr. Richard J. Reynolds, $170,000 was donated by The Duke
Endowment, $95,000 was assumed by the Baptist State Convention, and $187,-
246.29 was raised through general subscriptions. An unpaid balance of
$60,000 is outstanding. The Convention, at its meeting in High Point last
year, granted the Trustees permission to borrow this amount and assume obli-
gation for its repayment. It was borrowed from the Security Life and Trust
Company of Winston- Salem, and is payable $6,000 per year over a period of
ten years.
On October 1, 1942 we found ourselves facing a difficult problem in meet-
ing the cost of operation of the newly expanded hospital. In addition to the
increase in costs generally experienced in every walk of life, we faced the
necessary increase in cost of the operation of facilities never before afforded.
For illustration, the cost of caring for an ordinary illness, like appendicitis or
pneumonia, is little more than the price of board and room. The cost of
caring for the more complicated conditions, like cancer of the lung or brain
tumor, because of the highly scientific equipment and facilities necessary, is
three or four times greater than the cost of ordinary care. Before the medical
school made available to the hospital specialists qualified to care for such con-
ditions, we did not face this type of expense. Now, we are rendering this
added service to the indigent as well as to those able to pay for such services.
This financial crisis has been met in a most satisfactory manner.
On October 1, 1942 we owed $31,060.97 on unpaid bills for operation of
the hospital and had available only $74.11 in cash to meet these obligations.
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Six months later, on April 1, 1943, we owed in unpaid accounts $49,510.42
and a note at the bank for $15,000 that represented money that had been bor-
rowed to pay the account of those we owed who would not extend our credit
further. To pay this total of $64,510.42 we had cash on hand in the amount
of $72.00.
Investigation of the situation by a special finance committee appointed to
supervise the financial operations of the hospital revealed that closer attention
to the collection of accounts owed by those amply able to pay would materially
help reduce this deficit.
At the time of the beginning of the expanded program in 1940, the Trustees
anticipated this difficulty and included at that time in the plan of organization
the employment of a trained hospital administrator to attend to this phase of
the work. During the period of about two years an administrator had not
been added because of the high qualifications deemed necessary by the Board
of Trustees for a man to fill that position. In the early part of June of this
year, we were fortunate in securing for this position Mr. Ray E. Brown. Mr.
Brown assumed his duties on June 20, 1943.
On obtaining an administrator, the Trustees released Superintendent Smith
Hagaman from routine duties in the operation of the hospital in order that
he might give his full time to the general interest of the hospital in its rela-
tion to the denomination. The wisdom of this arrangement is proved by the
fact that through his diligent efforts and relief from other responsibilities,
Superintendent Hagaman has this year led our people to increase the Mother's
Day Offering from $41,992.13 last year to $66,940.75 this year.
We are happy to report that we are now operating the hospital within
its income. The generous increase in the Mother's Day Offering to $66,940.75
plus the receipt of an allowance for charity from The Duke Endowment
amounting to $22,671 provided funds sufficient to pay our deficit and leave a
moderate fund for working capital. In addition, we have during the year
added new equipment valued at $7,580.12.
On October 1, 1943 we had no outstanding bills for the operation of the
hospital, and the note of $15,000 borrowed from the bank in the early part of
the year to pay operation deficit had been paid. We had on hand at that time
a cash balance of $25,995.08.
mother's day offering
The Trustees and administrative officers consider it their primary duty to
see that every dollar of funds contributed for charity is used only for those
who are actually unable to care for themselves. Occasionally, we will make
erroneous decisions, but with the help of pastors and church leaders we make
every effort to obtain the facts. As a second objective, we, through economy
where possible and cooperative effort in every department, try to make your
charity dollar go as far as possible. Both of these objectives have come nearer
attainment during the past year. Whereas the Mother's Day Offering that
was available for the first nine months of 1943 for the payment of the cost
of free service was only $50,205.42 the hospital gave free service costing
$102,186.19. It is estimated that for twelve months this will amount to $136,-
248.24. This amount accounts for only a share of the cost of rendering this
service. A conservative estimate will show that the hospital cost represents
less than half of the total cost of the care of a hospital patient. The remain-
ing cost is that provided in the professional care of the patient. The staff
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of the medical school has provided this professional care free. Assuming
that this cost is only equal to and no greater than the hospital cost, in round
figures your hospital has given in free service to those coming to its door
unable to pay during the first nine months of this year $204,372.38 for a
Mother's Day contribution for that period amounting to $50,205.42, or for a
Mother's Day contribution for the year of $66,940.75 we will give in free
service $272,496.48.
RECOMMENDATIONS
It is obvious that medical care given free to an individual costs just as
much as if the individual paid for the service. This cost must be met in some
way if a deficit is to be prevented. We have the equipment and professional
talent now for an even greater service to the needy than that rendered during
the first nine months of this year. As Christians, we must realize that healing
was a major portion of Christ's ministry. As Christians and followers of
His such becomes our duty.
It is recommended that the Convention establish for the coming year a
goal of $150,000 for the Mother's Day Offering. It is further recommended
that the first $75,000 of this amount be used to pay for charity work in the
hospital ; that the second $75,000 be used to retire the debt on the hospital
assumed by the Convention. At the end of this year, there will remain unpaid
approximately $60,000 of the $95,000 assumed on the new addition to the
hospital and $24,000 on the original debt. Five per cent of the cooperative pro-
gram formerly awarded to the hospital is now being retained in the business
office of the Convention to help meet this debt. We wish to further recommend
that when this debt is paid the hospital again be allowed to receive its five
per cent share of the cooperative program to retire the $60,000 debt assumed
directly by the Board of Trustees of the hospital and to keep up the equip-
ment from year to year necessary to provide this enlarged service.
Your Board of Trustees, administrative officers, nurses, and medical staff
are daily coordinating their efforts in a program of Christian service to the
sick and afflicted. We realize that our primary duty in the Convention pro-
gram is the judicious administration of the affairs of the hospital. On the other
hand, we are anxious at all times to make a contribution to the general wel-
fare of all of our denominational activities. It is our hope that working to-
gether we may continue to go forward.
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSE
For Nine Months Period Ending 9-30-43
Cash Income for Period $399,745.83
Less Expenses: Actual
Per Patient Day Amount
Budget Actual Expended
Administration $.29 $.29 $18,425.14
Dietary 1.50 1.34 84,715.83
Laundry 25 .24 14,848.19
Housekeeping 28 .35 22,355.62
Plant Operation. 37 .37 22,686.50
Medical and Surgical Supplies 26 .27 17,466.25
Record Room 13 .12 7,276.32
Nursing Service 1.33 1.17 73,679.58
Resident Staff 12 .11 7,019.39
Anesthesia Department 15 .14 8,495.69
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Oxygen 02
Pharmacy and Drugs 26
X-Ray 24
Laboratory 12
Blood Bank
02
1,158.78
24
15,195.80
27
17,423.27
16
10,472.85
03
1,907.10
Total In-Patient Costs $5.32 $5.12 $323,126.31
Add:
Equipment $.08 $.12 $ 7,580.12
Out-Patient Clinics 05 .05 2,976.40
Rent, Interest, Refunds 10 .10 6,302. 55
Denominational Activity 10 .10 6,366.13
Total Expenditures for Period $5.65 $5.49 346,351.51
Cash Gain for Period $ 53,394.32
Less: Amount that should be set aside for depreciation
9/12ths of 2.5% of $734,063.37 cost of buildings $ 13,763.61
9/12ths of 10% of $225,202.77 cost of equipment 16,890.30
$ 30,653.91
Less New Equipment during year 7,580.12
Net Necessary Depreciation Reserves 23,073.79
Remaining Gain for Period $ 30,320.53
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
For Period 1933 through 1943
Number Number Number Average Average
of of of Free Patients Stay Per
Year Patients Patient Days Patient Days Per Day Patient
1933 2,551 21,778 8,953 59 8.5
1934 3,087 25,096 9,274 68 8.3
1935 3,652 31,881 14,206 87 8.7
1936 3,798 34,564 13,404 94 9.1
1937 4,032 35,322 12,603 96 8.7
1938 3,843 37,692 11,588 103 9.8
1939 4,082 39,847 9,990 109 9.7
1940 4,038 42,967 14,496 117 10.6
1941 4,024 45,983 15,347 126 11.4
1942....... 7,030 72,783 22,671 191 10.3
1943* 7,636 84,156 25,904 232 11.0
Total Cost Per Church Cost of
Year Expended Patient Day Donations . Charity
1933 $86,660.29 $3.98 $13,333.35 $35,632.94
1934 102,211.10 4.06 17,165.61 37,652.44
1935 123,721.91 3.88 19,921.13 55,119.28
1936 132,785.54 3.84 21,563.40 51,171.36
1937 147,835.80 4.18 26,658.55 52,680.54
1938 156,457.50 4.50 24,307.63 52,146.06
1939 165,058.96 4.65 26,540.21 46,453.50
1940 183,882.76 4.29 25,491.78 62,187.84
1941 225,642.24 5.45 33,590.77 83,641.15
1942 369,943.40 5.64 46,728.18 104,971.81
1943* 462,330.36 5.65 66,940.75 136,248.24
*Estimated — Based on actual for first nine months.
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100.
VI. COOPERATIVE PROGRAM
A. DIVISION OF RECEIPTS
We need to be reminded of the following facts :
The total income of the Convention for Missions, Education and Benevolence
during 1943 will be approximately $1,400,000. Of this amount about $250,000
will be for the Orphanage, which of course is not included in the Cooperative
Program. Of the balance, $1,150,000, $600,000 will be for the Undesignated
Cooperative Program. In other words, apart from the Orphanage, our desig-
nations will amount to almost as much as the undesignated funds. If, how-
ever, the plans suggested elsewhere in this report are fulfilled, it will mean that
in 1945 we shall need no special offering for the Wake Forest chapel nor for
the Hundred Thousand Club. Therefore, we can concentrate on the Un-
designated Cooperative Program; and we should think in terms of not less
than $1,000,000 undesignated in 1945.
For 1944 the Board believes that we should divide the undesignated funds
sixty per cent for State objects and forty per cent for Southern Baptist Con-
vention objects, but in doing so it ought to be determined that beginning with
1945 the undesignated funds are to be divided fifty per cent for State objects
and fifty per cent for Southern Convention objects.
B. THE HUNDRED THOUSAND CLUB
In January and February a concerted effort ought to be made to get
10,000 members of the Hundred Thousand Club for one year. If this can be
done there can be no doubt that all our debts can be lifted in 1945. Looking
toward this end, the Board believes the General Secretary and all those con-
nected with the agencies of the Convention to promote during the last six
months of 1944 an intensive effort to get all our churches to provide for the
most complete Every Member Enrollment we have ever had. This will, of
course, include Stewardship Revivals, Schools of Missions, etc.
In this way we can build up a great Cooperative Program and still pro-
vide for certain special days. Until the present program of North Carolina and
the Southern Baptist Convention is changed, we should think of these special
days as a part of the Baptist program, but not, technically speaking, a part
of the Cooperative Program. The schedule of these special days follow:
Home and Foreign Missions — Some Sunday in March
Hospital — Mother's Day in May
State Missions — Last Sunday in October
Orphanage— Thanksgiving
101.
VII. THE BAPTIST BOOK STORE
(Owned jointly by the Baptist Sunday School Board
of the Southern Baptist Convention and the
General Board of the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina.)
Mrs. Roger P. Marshall, Manager
The purpose of the Baptist Book Store is to serve North Carolina Baptists
with the best in books and supplies needed for every department of the church,
Annual of Session 1943 123
and to encourage the reading of more and better books in the homes of our
denomination. All books, Bibles, and supplies are sold strictly at publishers'
prices, at a fair percentage of profit, which is divided equally between the
Baptist Sunday School Board and the North Carolina Mission Board and is
used for general mission purposes. Since ours is the only denominational book
store in the state, a great many books and supplies are sold to people and
churches of other denominations.
Net sales for the year ending December 31, 1942, amounted to $97,753.18,
an increase of $24,882.91, or 34% over 1941. (This is an interesting com-
parison with the sales ten years ago, 1932, which amounted to only $27,992.28.)
The sales turned over the inventory four times.
Write for free catalogues.
102.
VIII. THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HISTORICAL
COMMISSION
G. W. Paschal, Chairman
The commission again reports a year of progress. Volumes II and III
of the History of Wake Forest College, by G. W. Paschal, are just now com-
ing from the press. Beginning with 1865 they bring the history of the College
down to date with considerable fullness of detail. The history is published
by Wake Forest College, and the new volumes, as well as Volume I covering
the period from 1834 to 1865, may be ordered from Mr. E. B. Earnshaw,
Bursar, Wake Forest, North Carolina, at $2.00 a volume postpaid.
It is expected that another volume of the History of North Carolina Bap-
tists will be ready for the press within the year.
Valuable additions to the Baptist collection in the Wake Forest College
Library continue to be made, although the interest of many of its friends has
been absorbed in the war. The clerks of most of the associations are faithful
to send for the collection their current minutes, and sometimes the minutes
of earlier years ; many other minutes and valuable pamphlets are received from
the office of Secretary Huggins and the Biblical Recorder; the latter is con-
tributing also the numbers of Southern Baptist papers that come to that office.
Friends in other states are also regularly collecting and sending to the collec-
tion current minutes of the associations and conventions of the states in which
they live. Sometimes the library secures by purchase such valuable items as
the notebook of Mr. William Hooper, once president of Wake Forest College,
for the years 1860-1862. The collection is at all times available for the use
of those interested in any phase of our denominational life and history.
103.
IX. NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST FOUNDATION, INC.
Theodore S. Johnson, Secretary
On September 25, 1943, the North Carolina Baptist Foundation was ad-
ministering trust funds in the total amount of $166,121.39, which includes
$3,238.34 of cash income received and not yet expended to beneficiaries as of
the date of this report.
The assets of the Foundation and the changes made in each classification
during the past year are as follows :
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Real Estate $ 23,279.02 $ 968.44 Decrease
Building and Loan Stock 10,800.00 2,000.00 Decrease
Preferred- Stock 16,588.50 5,190.00 Increase
Miscellaneous Bonds 49,587.23 12,926.56 Increase
Notes Secured by-
Deed of Trust (4%) 12,077.80 3,644.45 Increase
Notes Secured by
Deed of Trust (4^4%) 1,000.00 No change
Notes Secured by
Deed of Trust (4^%) 11,528.40 5,091.66 Decrease
Notes Secured by
Deed of Trust (5%) 10,005.18 10,741.68 Decrease
Notes Secured by
Deed of Trust (6%) 10,200.00 1,655.00 Decrease
Common Stock 12,713.54 2,922.50 Increase
Cash Principal Balances 5,103.38 3,189.55 Increase
Cash Income Balances 3,238.34 160.22 Increase
$166,121.39 $ 7,576.50 Increase
The total gross income from these funds amounted during the fiscal year
to $6,048.35. Of this amount $5,210.33 was paid over to various beneficiaries.
The following items of expenses were paid:
Taxes $214.31
Repairs 109.95
Insurance 35.88
General Administration 15.99
The total fee collected by the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company for
their services as fiscal agent amounted to $301.67. This was computed on the
basis of 5 per cent of the actual income produced. The operations involved
in making changes in investments, collection of income, management of real
estate and many other duties of the fiscal agent make this charge very small
in comparison with the work and responsibilities involved.
The trust funds of the Foundation are arranged in groups according to
the purposes for which the trusts were established. The list of funds and the
names of the donors are given below :
No. Fund
8900 General
8901 Aged Ministers' Relief
8902 Mills Home
8903 Roanoke Association
8904 Church Buildings
Roanoke Association
8905 Ministerial Association
8906 Baptist Hospital
Total
Gross
Donors
Assets
Income
T. B. Parker
$ 4,372.34
$ 100.75
Noah Biggs
56,645.62
2,278.00
Nannie L. McLean
W. D. Adams
P. D. Camp
W. O. Johnson
W. L. Carter
33,380.53
1,758.39
Ida Y. Rogers
O. L. Pittman
Henrietta S. Jarman
Noah Biggs
3,800.00
240.61
Noah Biggs
5,000.00
185.00
Noah Biggs
2,212.94
95.74
W. L. Carter
1,800.00
None
8,325.78
303.75
2,424.19
75.52
7,410.06
317.26
735.88
17.50
1,000.00
29.25
2,497.50
90.28
5,481.59
213.84
2,922.50
None
1,500.00
None
8,341.72
None
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8907 State Missions D. P. Bridges 14,837.24 152.46
Y. M. Whisenunt
Margaret McDade
H. C. Bridger
8908 Meredith College Henrietta S. Jarman 4,933.50 190.00
Student Loan Fund
8909 Mills Home and Missions G. H. Church
8910 Gethsemane Baptist Church O. L. Pittman
8911 Christian Education P. D. Camp
8912 Boiling Springs Educ. Fund D. P. Dellinger
8913 General D. P. Bridges
8914 State Missions O. L. Pittman
8915 W.M.U. Scholarship
In Memory of
Mrs. Edna R. Harris
8916 Clement Baptist Church John E. Briggs
8917 Medical Department Dr. Wayland Mitchell
Wake Forest College
Cash Balances
Totals $166,121.39 $6,048.35
The following table will show for the past five years the yield on the
total fund and on the assets after deducting unproductive Real Estate. In
view of the unsettled financial conditions during this five year period and the
general tendency towards lower rates of interest, the return on the funds of
the foundation can be considered very satisfactory. Some of the investments
have been transferred directly by the donors to the Foundation and some were
included in the assets of estates.
WACHOVIA BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
FISCAL AGENT
NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST FOUNDATION
Statement Showing Income for Period September 25, 1938
to September 25, 1943
Income
* Assets Collected
Per Annual Report of 9-25-39 $145,658.81 $8,467.11
Do 9-25-40 146,040.69 7,040.14
Do 9-25-41 148,398.90 6,526.53
Do 9-25-42 155,466.77 6,023.18
Do 9-25-43 162,883.05 6,033.50
Gross
Income
Annual
Paid to
** Yield
Beneficiaries
%
or Invested
5.8%
$7,938.00
4.8%
6,200.00
4.4%
5,340.00
3.9%
4,620.00
3.7%
5,210.33
Annual Average for Period . . $151 ,689.64 $6,818.09 4.5% $5,861.67(3.9%)
Yield on Assets after deducting Unproductive Real Estate
Per Annual Report of 9-25-39 $130,721.32 6.5%
Do 9-25-40 133,340.69 5.3%
Do 9-25-41 135,698.90 4.8%
Do 9-25-42 143,666.77 4.2%
Do 9-25-43 151,083.05 4.0%
Annual Average for Period .. $138,902.15 5.0% (4.2%)
*Assets as shown include Real Estate, Securities, Notes and Uninvested Principal Cash, but do not
include Income Cash Balances.
**Yield based on Assets held in Accounts as of Annual Accounting dates.
126 N. C. Baptist State Convention
The largest change in investments is found in the item of Miscellaneous
Bonds, showing an increase of nearly Thirteen Thousand ($13,000.00) Dollars.
This is largely in United States Bonds. The security of investment is very
high, the rate of return is lower than for other investments, many of which are
not now obtainable. The total amount now invested in United States Bonds is
$31,599.43 divided as follows:
2y 2 % Bonds $26,257.80
2U% Bonds 2,535.94
2 % Bonds 2,805.69
A review of the reported figures discloses one new fund, established by
Reverend John E. Briggs of Washington, D. C, the income of which will be
expended for a church library or other needs of the Clement Baptist Church of
Person County.
In every Annual Report of the Secretary since 1941 there have appeared
certain recommendations regarding the appointment by the Convention Board
or by the Convention of a competent Field Agent for the Foundation. Nothing
has yet been done about it, the various institutions which are, or might become
beneficiaries of the Foundation appearing to prefer to finance separate cam-
paigns. There can be no question that the Foundation offers an easy, sound and
economical way to raise money and to provide for its safe investment and
management.
We renew this recommendation again confident that the Foundation has
proven its worth and dependability and that there are large sources of revenue
that are only waiting for the proper information and opportunity to become
available to all agencies of the denominations.
104.
X. RECOMMENDATIONS
1. That the division of undesignated funds as between State and Southern
Baptist Convention objects be left to the decision of the General Board
when it meets in January, with, however, the instruction to the Board to
increase the percentage to Southwide funds if it is at all possible to do so;
that the General Board be asked to divide the per cent allocated for State
objects so as to properly safeguard our debt funding commitments and at
the same time conserve and promote in the best manner possible all our work.
2. That the Convention authorize a continuance of the work with our
Negro and Indian brethren, and that the appropriations be made as generous
as the income of the Convention will permit.
3. That the work at Oteen, Samarcand, and at the three sanatoriums —
Aberdeen, Black Mountain and Fayetteville — be continued ; and that with
reference to Oteen the other states that have soldier-patients there be re-
quested to continue the support they have been giving, due to the fact that
the recognized Protestant chaplain now serving the hospital is a Baptist.
4. That the Board be authorized to continue to work on the plan which
will place in the field the best available man, whose duty it will be to solicit
large contributions in the form of gifts, wills, living trusts, and insurance
policies, for our several institutions and agencies ; and that all the institutions
and agencies of the Convention be asked to cooperate, in so far as it is possible,
with respect (1) to providing the salary and expenses, (2) to selecting the
Annual of Session 1943 127
man, and (3) to furnishing him with full information as to needs and prospects.
Further, that the Board be authorized to consider combining the work outlined
above with the Laymen's Work, since conceivably one man might be able to
carry on in an effective way both activities.
5. That we set as our aim for the year 1944 the sum of $1,250,000 for the
Cooperative Program, undesignated and designated, including the Hundred
Thousand Club ; and that we set a goal of $250,000 for the Orphanage, a total
of $1,500,000.
6. That in addition to an aggressive program all along the line there be
a concerted effort on the part of all Convention forces to pay off all the debts
in 1944 for which the Convention is responsible; that the present members
of the Hundred Thousand Club be asked to continue their memberships for
one more year, and that other members be sought in sufficient numbers to
enable the Convention to get out of debt in 1944; that the goal for the
Mother's Day offering be set at $150,000, with the understanding that the
first $75,000 received shall be used for service patients at the Hospital, and
that all monies received beyond that amount shall be used to liquidate the debt
of the Hospital for which the Convention is responsible ; and that all the
workers of the General Board be asked to join with the administration of
the Hospital in achieving this goal.
7. With reference to the erection of Wake Forest chapel, it is recommended
that all individuals and churches who have made pledges be urged to pay
them as soon as possible; and that churches be requested to place a worthy
amount for the chapel in the 1944 budget.
8. That we continue to place our main emphasis during 1944 on Worship
and Evangelism ; that the program for former years be continued and en-
larged; and that the general missionaries be instructed to give the last five
months of the year to the promotion of the Cooperative Program in the churches
through stewardship and enlistment.
9. That the Board be authorized and empowered to set aside $5,500 for
the use of the Allied Church League for the Abolition of Beverage Alcohol ;
and that the Convention nominate 55 persons to be elected by the Board of
Trustees as the Convention's representatives on the board of the League ; and
that on some Sunday in February, preferably the last Sunday in the month,
every pastor in the State be requested to give his people a message on tem-
perance, and inform them of what is going on among the Christian people
of the State to rid North Carolina of beverage alcohol.
128 N. C. Baptist State Convention
AUDITOR'S STATEMENT
Executive Committee of the General Board,
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina,
Raleigh, North Carolina
Gentlemen: —
According to your instructions, we have audited the books and records of the Convention for the
twelve months ended December 31, 1943, and in the following tabulations we show the Revenue and
Expenses of the General Fund, together with all Cash Receipts and Disbursements for the other funds.
Exhibit "A" shows the Revenue and Expenses of the General Fund, together with the distribution of
the Revenue after paying expenses chargeable to the undesignated revenue, and Exhibit "N" is a sum-
mary of the net debt of the Convention.
All Cash Receipts were found to have been promptly deposited in the bank and Disbursements were
found supported by cancelled checks, invoices, etc., and expenses were properly classified. Our examina-
tion did not disclose any evidence of irregularities and we believe the funds have been carefully and honestly
handled and properly accounted for.
Just below is a summary, not audited, but prepared from the reports of the various institutions, show-
ing the total of all income for Convention objects for the calendar year 1943:
INCOME FOR ALL CONVENTION OBJECTS
Calendar Year 1943
Undesignated - 3 591,882.43
W. M. U. Specials 15,811.42
Designated lor Hundred Thousand Club 99,416.72
Designated for State Missions 88,756.47
Designated for Foreign Missions 155,412.90
Designated for Home Missions 40 , 913 . 03
Designated for Ministerial Relief 2,815.91
Designated for Ministerial Education 840.57
Designated for Education — Convention Debt 818. 98
Designated for North Carolina Hospital 69,341.02
Designated for Current Support 3,077.00
Designated for Wake Forest Chapel — Building Fund 34,465 .06
Designated for American Bible Society 993.22
Designated for Louisville Seminary 474.85
Designated for Baptist Orphanage 298,457.31
GRAND TOTAL 31 ,403 ,476.89
Respectfully submitted,
A. T. Allen and Company
Certified Public Accountants
Raleigh, N. C, February 7, 1944.
REVENUE AND EXPENSES— GENERAL FUND
12 Months Ended December 31, 1943
Revenue:
From Churches— Undesignated 3591,882.43
W. M. U. Funds Sent Direct — (See Contra in Disbursements) 15,811.42
Total Revenue to Account for 3607,693.85
Expenses Chargeable to Undesignated Revenue:
Salaries Paid:
General Secretary and Treasurer 35 , 700 . 00
Bookkeeper 2,070.00
Secretary.. 2,070.00
Assistant Bookkeeper 1,020.00 10,860.00
Travel Expense 741.89
Office Rent 864.00
Printing 707.54
Postage 813.00
Telephone and Telegraph 223.90
Audits— General..... 600.00
Supplies and Repairs 602.37
Bond Premiums 150.00
Compensation Insurance 169.20
Expense Board and Committee Meetings 1,008.08
Employees Retirement Fund 1,519.07
Bank Service Charge 14.42
Publishing Receipt 648 . 16
3 18,921.63
Promotion:
Salaries 34,800.00
Travel..... 1,355.80
Associational Promotion 4,508.27
Baptist Radio Hour 2,817.51
Literature and Postage 231.95
Meetings and Contingent 53.50 13,767.03
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W. M. U. Department:
Salaries 557,730.24
Office Rent 648.00
Printing and Postage 3,570.84 11,949.08
Total Operating Expenses £44,637.74
ADD: W. M. U. Funds Sent Direct (See Contra in Receipts) 15,811.42 60,449.16
Distributable Balance — General Fund 55547, 244 . 69
Distribution to Other Funds:
State Missions 15.% 82,105.92
North Carolina Hospital 5 . %, 27,368.63
Southwide Objects 40.% 218,949.09
Education — Ministerial Aid 1. % 5,473.75
Ministers' Retirement Fund 2.% 10,947.46
Education Convention Debt 23.% 125,770.14
Education— Current Support 14.% 76,629.70
Total Distribution to Other Funds 3547,244.69
Exhibit "B"
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— STATE MISSIONS FUND
12 Months Ended December 31, 1943
Designated Funds $ 78,170.45
From Baptist Foundation 461.00
From Baptist Sunday School Board 8,535.06
For Salaries Pastors — Camp Areas 793 .00
Rent McCullers Church 32.00
Southern Baptist Churches for Oteen 764.96
Total % 88,756.47
ADD: Share of General Fund— 15% 82,105.92
Total Receipts 55170,862.39
Balance December 31, 1942 16,774.54
Total to Account for .55187,636.93
Disbursements:
General
Division of Sunday School:
Salaries:
Secretary 33,300.00
Field Workers 3,750.00
Stenographers 1,291.78 ? 8,341.78
Travel 941.79
Printing and Postage 459.87
Rent 302.40
Sunday School Convention 460.08
Incidentals _. 260.48
Special Associational Work 2,196.55
Vacation Bible School 298.98
Total Sunday School Work 55 13,261.93
Division of Training Union:
Salaries:
Secretary 552,575.00
Y. P. Workers 680.00
Intermediate Workers 1,500.00
Stenographer 1,410.00 55 6,165.00
Travel 773.50
Printing and Postage 713.38
Rent 243.00
Assembly 500.00
Incidentals 204.03
Special Associational Work 1, 723. 83
Total Division of Training Union 10,322.74
Division of Student Work:
Salary— Student Secretary 55 2,400.00
Salary — Stenographer 1, 199. 60
Travel 477.31
Retreats 353.46
Rent 194.40
Postage, Supplies and Incidentals 506.26
Youth Revivals 19.14
Printing Reveille 253.47
Salary Secretary — Greensboro 993 . 39
130 N. C. Baptist State Convention
Travel Incidentals and Upkeep 808.86
Salary Secretary— E.C.T.C 1,416.00
Travel and Student House 457.78
Salary Secretary— A.S.T.C 1,150.00
Travel and Incidentals 103.18
Salary — Student Secretarv:
Meredith College 296.77
State College 462.78
Duke Universitv 159.50
Total Division of Student Work 11,251.90
Total Department of Christian Education % 34,836.57
Other State Mission Work:
General Missionaries Salary and Travel $ 7,905.07
Indian Work Salary and Travel 1, 677. 24
Sanatoriums:
Oteen 52,400.00
W. N. C 410.00
Samarcand Sanatorium 469.00 3,279.00
Negro Convention 2,073.00
Camp Work:
Fayetteville 3,720.00
Wilmington 2,880.00
Jacksonville 2,195.82
Carolina Beach 2,520.00
General Personnel 1,454.19
Equipment 939.52 13,709.53
Church Building:
Boone 1,500.00
Cullowhee...- 404.67
Roanoke Association 150.00
Pullen Memorial 5,000.00
Wilmington 9,879.27
Jacksonville 147. 62
Carolina Beach 2,415.94
General 14,109.75 33,607.25
Bibical Recorder— Current Support $ 7,113 .40
Aid on Pastors' Salaries 25,504.17
Workers for Temperance 2, 341. 42
Associational Revivals 11 ,143 .67
Miscellaneous:
Pastors Schools and Conferences 1,752.76
Annuity — Spilman Cottage 100.00
Annuity and Repairs — Bridges Cottage 1,120.00
Upkeep Chapel Hill Church 600.00
Convention Minutes and Expense 1,837.94
Salary and Expense Recording Secretary ._ 225.00
Statistical Secretary 200.00
Statistical Printing and Postage 691.87
Expense State Mission Day 1,308.16
Subscription to Biblical Recorder for
Pastors 934.83
Study of Rural Churches 284.86
Movie Equipment 7.65
Contingent 1,333 .62
Preparation of Manuscript Historv of N. C.
Baptists _ 600.00
Total Miscellaneous 10,996.69
Total Other State Mission Work 119,350.44
TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS— STATE MISSIONS FUND 154,187.01
BALANCE DECEMBER 31, 1943 33,449.92
Total Accounted for 2187,636.93
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— MINISTERS' RELIEF FUND— SPECIAL
12 Months Ended December 31, 1943
Receipts:
From Baptist Foundation $ 2,050.00
Balance December 31, 1942 5,288.23
Total to Account for $ 7,338.23
Disbursements:
Ad to Aged Ministers 3,075.00
Balance December 31, 1943 4,263.23 g 7,338.23
Total Accounted for 2 7,338.23
Annual of Session 1943 131
Exhibit "D"
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— EDUCATION— MINISTERIAL AID
12 Months Ended December 31, 1943
Receipts:
Designated Funds and from Baptist Foundation $ 813.18
ADD: Share of General Fund 1% 5,473.75
Funds Direct (Contra in Disbursements) 27.39
Total Receipts 3 6,314.32
Balance December 31, 1942 1,765.72
Total to Account for 3 8,080.04
Disbursements:
Paid to Wake Forest College $ 2,825.00
Paid to Mars Hill College 1,060.00
Paid to Wingate College 340.00
Paid to Campbell College 530.00
Paid to High Point College 90.00
Paid to Gardner-Webb College 530.00
Total $ 5,375.00
ADD: Funds sent direct (Contra in Receipts) 27.39
Total Disbursements $ 5,402.39
Balance December 31, 1943 2,677.65
Total Accounted for 3 8,080.04
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— EDUCATION CONVENTION DEBT
12 Months Ended December 31, 1943
Receipts:
Designated Funds 3 818.98
ADD: Share of General Fund 23% 125,770.14
Apportionment Hundred Thousand Club 48,078.62
Total Receipts 3174,667.74
Balance December 31, 1942:
Baptist State Convention 3 8,123.11
Debt Service Fund 262.28 8,385.39
Total to Account for 3183,053.13
Disbursements:
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. — Repayment 3124,500.00
H. O. Gattis Note— Payment in full 14,000.00
Mars Hill Note— Paid on Principal 2,200.00
Paid to Trustees — Fruitland Institute 1,750.00
Interest— Wachovia Bank and Trust Co 8,196.26
Interest— H. O. Gattis Note 570.90
Interest— Mars Hill Note 187.00
Operating Expenses:
Audit Debt Service Fund 35.00
Safe Deposit Box Rental 30.00
Gift to Mars Hill College 15.00
Total Disbursements 3151,484.16
Balance December 31, 1943:
Baptist State Convention 3 31,197.23
Debt Service Fund 371.74 31,568.97
Total Accounted for 3183,053.13
Exhibit "F"
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITAL
12 Months Ended December 31, 1943
Designated Funds 3 19,963.30
ADD: Share of General Fund 5% 27,368.63
3 47,331.93
ADD: Funds sent direct (See Contra in Disbursements) 49,377.82
Total Receipts 96,709.75
Balance December 31, 1942 4,024.15
Total to Account for 3100,733.90
132 N. C. Baptist State Convention
Disbursements :
For North Carolina Hospital — Designations and Payments on Notes
and Interest . 47,865.69
F„unds Sent Direct (See Contra in Receipts) 49,377.82
Total Disbursements 97, 243. SI
Cash Balance December 31, 1943 3,490.39
Total Accounted for 3100,733.90
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— MINISTERS' RETIREMENT FUND
12 Months Ended December 31, 1942
Receipts:
Share of General Fund 2% 3 10,947.46
Balance December 31, 1942 3,490.34
Total to Account for 3 14,437.80
Disbursements:
Conventions Share of Retirement Fund 3 6,174.60
Salary— Bookkeeper 1,530.00
Promotion of Plan 1,054.10
Bond Premium 17.50
Supplies, Printing, Postage, etc 342 . 81
Payment on Adding Machine 101.97
Total Disbursements 3 9,220.98
Balance December 31, 1943 5,216.82
Total Accounted for.. 3 14,437.80
Exhibit "H"
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— WAKE FOREST CHAPEL BUILDING FUND
12 Months Ended December 31, 1943
Receipts:
Designations 3 34,465.06
Loans — Wachovia Bank and Trust Co 65,000.00
Total 3 99,465.00
Overdraft December 31, 1942 5,181.47
ADD: Transfer of Unexpended Balance Current Support 12-31-43 by
order of Executive Committee 2,234.31
Total to Account for 3 96,517.90
Disbursements:
To Treasurer Wake Forest Chapel Fund 3 71, 23 7. 50
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. — Repayments on Principal of Loans 30,000.00
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. — Interest 635.41
W. H. Moore, Salary, Rent and Travel 3,628.75
O. T. Binkley— Travel 51.30
Supplies Printing and Postage 168.76
Total Disbursements 3105,721.72
Overdraft December 31, 1943 9,203.82
Total Accounted for 3 96,517.90
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
12 Months Ended December 31, 1943
Receipts:
Designations 3 993.22
Balance December 31, 1942 None
(Included in Foreign Missions Fund)
Total to Account for 3 993.22
Disbursements:
Remitted to American Bible Society 3 799.37
Balance December 31, 1943 193.85
Total Accounted for 3 993.22
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— CURRENT SUPPORT
12 Months Ended December 31, 1943
Receipts:
Designations 3 3,077.00
ADD: Share of General Fund- 14% 76,629.70
Total to Account for 3 79,706.70
Annual of Session 1943 133
Disbursements:
Current Support:
Meredith College 3 20,000.00
Wake Forest College 20,000.00
Campbell College 12.500.00
Mars Hill College 15,000.00
Chowan College 388.34
Wingate College 7,015.00
Audits Institutions 2, 000 . 00
Expense Fruitland Institute 45.18
Expenses — Education Commission 523.87
Total Disbursements 3 77,472.39
Balance Unexpended 12-31-43 .... $ 2,234.31
transferred to Wake Forest Chapel Building Fund by Order of
Executive Committee (See Exhibit "H") 2, 234 . 3 1
Total Disbursements and Transfer $ 79,706.70
Balance December 31, 1943 None
Total Accounted for $ 79,706.70
Exhibit "K"
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— SOUTHWIDE OBJECTS FUND
12 Months Ended December 31, 1943
Receipts:
Designations:
Hundred Thousand Club— 50% 3 56,511.35
Home Missions 40,913.03
Ministerial Relief— Regular 765 . 91
Foreign Missions 128, 876. 45
£227,066.74
ADD: Foreign Mission Fund — Sent Direct 26,536.45
(See Contra in Disbursements)
Total ?253,603.19
ADD: Share of General ¥aad-A0% 218,949.09
Total Receipts..,. 3472,552.28
ADD: Louisville Seminary 474.85
Total 3473,027.13
Balance December 31, 1942 81,328.84
Total to Account for 3554,355.97
Disbursements:
Paid on Cooperative Program 3217,642.49
Paid on Designations — Hundred Thousand Club 51 ,685 .46
Foreign Missions:
Paid on Designations 3119,391.83
Funds sent Direct — Contra in Receipts 26,536.45
E. P. Buxton— Treasurer 100.00 146,028.28
Paid on Designations — Home Missions 40,160.60
Paid on Designations — Ministers Relief 743.66
Postage and Incidentals:
Foreign Missions 3 112. 20
Home Missions 194.86 307.06
Louisville Seminary 398. 35
3456,965.90
Balance December 31, 1943 97,390.07
Total Accounted for 3554,355.97
Exhibit "L'
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE OF NORTH CAROLINA, INCORPORATED
CURRENT FUND INCOME AND EXPENSE
Year Ended December 31, 1943
Income:
Churches, Sunday Schools, W. M. S— Cash 3287,754.45
Churches, Sunday Schools, W. M. S.— Clothing 1,785.36
Churches, Sunday Schools, W. M. S — Food 8,917.50
Individuals — Cash 18,469.05
Interest — Endowment and Trust Funds 19,365.44
Dividends, Rent and Interest 2,706.01
The Duke Endowment 13,586.53
Profit from Print Shop and Charity and Children 4,274.42 3356,858.76
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Expense:
Maintenance Cost:
At Mills Home J160.761.80
At Kennedy Home 64,566.71
Extra Institutional Service — Mills Home 9 , 847 . 66
Extra Institutional Service — Kennedy Home 1,324. 10
Annuities Paid 4,645.28
J241.145.5S
Excess of Income Over Expense 2115,713.21
BAPTIST ORPHANGE OF NORTH CAROLINA, INCORPORATED
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
December 31, 1943
Assets ;
Plant and Equipment— Capital Fund 3758,980. 65
Current Fund — Cash — Accounts Receivable — Inventories 287,998.33
Endowment Funds — Cash — Land — Mortgages — Bonds 713 ,497 . 73
31,760,476.71
Liabilities None
Net Worth .31,760,476.71
Exhibit "M"
BIBICAL RECORDER BUILDING FUND-
AUDITED CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
Calendar Year Ended December 31, 1943
Receipts:
Rents:
Baptist State Convention 3 2,251.80
Baptist Book Store 1,350.00
Bibical Recorder 604.80
Bynum Printing Co 3,240.00
Kings Bindery 540.00
Total Rents 3 7,986.60
Baptist Book Store— Profit 1943 11,152.63
Total Receipts 19,139.23
Balance January 1, 1943
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., Raleigh, N. C 1,058.78
Total to Account for 3 20,198.01
Disbursements:
Operation of Building:
1943 City and County Taxes 3 383.04
Insu ranee 86. 99
Lights and Water 544.97
Fuel and Heat 371.37
Supplies 112.01
Repairs 328.32
Remodel Boiler Room 1,746.29
J anitors — Salary 1,3 74. 00
Relief and Annuity Board 40.32
Total Operation of Building 3 4,987.31
Loan — Wachovia Bank and Trust Co.:
Payments on Principal 3 13,500.00
Payments on Interest 1,590.00
Total Disbursements for Year 3 20, 077 . 3 1
Balance December 31, 1943
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., Raleigh, N. C 120.70
Total Accounted for -3 20,198.01
STATEMENT OF PRESENT FINANCIAL CONDITION
December 31, 1943
Liabilities:
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co.— Note Payable 3227,500.00
Note Payable— Mars Hill College 3,300.00
Fruitland Institute — Claims Guaranteed 1,750.00
Biblical Recorder Building Fund Loan 31,500.00
North Carolina Hospital Building Fund — Notes:
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., Raleigh, N. C 3 62,000.00
Security National Bank, Winston-Salem 24,400.00 86,400.00
Due to Southwide Objects 87,241.13
Total Liabilities .3437,691.13
Annual of Session 1943 135
Assets Available:
Cash in Bank December 31, 1943:
Baptist State Convention 3168,675.34
Baptist State Convention — Debt Service Fund 371.74
Biblical Recorder Building Fund 120 . 70
Total Available Assets ^169,167.78
Net Amount of Debt December 31, 1943 8268,523.35
BAPTIST BOOK STORE
Raleigh, North Carolina
AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENT
BALANCE SHEET
December 31, 1943
Assets:
Current:
Cash in Bank 3 None
Petty Cash 10.00
Returned Checks 19.11
Accounts Receivable 3 13,314.84
Less: Reserve for Doubtful None 13,314.84
Merchandise Inventory.. 18,541.90
Total Current Assets 3 31,885.85
Fixed:
Furniture and Fixtures 3 3,640.29
Less: Reserve for Depreciation 2,316.35
Book Value of Fixed Assets 3 1,323.94
Total Assets 3 33,209.79
Liabilities and Net Worth:
Liabilities 3 None
Net Worth 33,209.79
Total Liabilities and Net Worth 3 33,209.79
Operating Income:
Sales 3142,802.76
Less: Returns and Allowances 3 7,015.46
Excise Tax 205.25
N. C. Sales Tax.... 1,379.83 8,600.54
Net Sales 3134,202.22
Cost of Sales:
Inventory January 1, 1943 3 16,123.51
Purchases Current Year.. 87,031.97
Freight and Express 1 ,620.34
Total 3104,775.82
Less: Inventory December 31, 1943 18,541.90
Cost of Sales 86,233.92
Gross Profit on Sales ... 3 47,968.30
Operating Expenses:
Salaries 3 9,145.75
Rent.. 1,350.00
Advertising 3,101.59
Postage 3,313.23
Travel Expense 192.65
Insurance 258.08
Telephone and Telegraph 185.39
Printing, Supplies and Stationery 1,040.72
Depreciation 210. 95
General Expense 900.74
Total Operating Expenses 3 19,699.10
Operating Profit 3 28,269.20
Other Income:
Recoveries on Bad Debts 69.63
Operating Profit and Other Income 3 28,338.83
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Other Deductions:
Bad Accounts Charged Off 3 62.42
Bank Service Charges 140.92
Accounts Receivable Adjustment 208 . 06
Total Deductions 411.40
Net Profit for the Year _$ 27,927.43
NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITALS, INCORPORATED
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
December 31, 1943
Assets:
Cash— Current Fund $ 21,997.28
Cash— Plant Fund.-- 2,684.09 $ 24,681.37
War Bonds — Current Fund 56.25
Accounts Receivable — Net 29,861.33
Due from Duke Endowment 26,889.00
Inventories 18,472.59
Prepaid Insurance 1, 209 . 07
Securities — Endowment Fund 2, 222 .01
Land, Buildings and Equipment — Less Reserves 884,474.11
Total Assets .. .2987, 865. 73
Liabilities:
Mortgage Payable— Plant Fund 2 60,000.00
Capital!
Current Fund $ 98,485.52
Plant Fund 827,158.20
Endowment Fund 2,222.01 3927,865. 73
Total Liabilities and Surplus 2987,865.73
NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITALS, INCORPORATED
OPERATING STATEMENT
Year Ended December 31, 1943
Gross Income From Patients 2594,046.34
6 Charity Work 3138,511.02
Ministerial and Courtesy Allowances 6,998.74
Insurance and Professional Allowances 9,907.17
Bad Debts— Charge-Offs 10,009.03
Reserved for Uncollected , 16,548.10 181,974.06
Net Income from Patients 2412,072.28
Patient Expenses:
Administration 2 24 , 791 . 42
Dietary 117,599.45
Laundry... 20,078.25
Housekeeping 35, 054 . 63
Plant Operation 32,109.82
Medical and Surgical _ 57,497.42
Pharmacy 18,353.80
Nursing .. 92,360.99
X-Ray 23,436.76
Laboratory - 14,838.78
Out-Patient Clinics 4,254.56
Depreciation — Building and Equipment 42,484.62 482,860.50
Excess of Patient Expense Over Patient Income 2 70,788.22
Non-Patient Income:
Religious Contributions 2 72,584.08
Duke Endowment 26,899.00
Individuals 5, 224. 25
Government Contributions 26, 322. 17
Non-Hospital Income 2, 877. 85
Endowment Income 52.53
Total Non-Patient Income.. 2133,959.88
Non-Operating Expense:
Equipment 2 18,718.44
Interest and Rent 7,696.13
Non-Hospital 9,119.28
Transferred to Endowments 666.33 36,200. 18
Excess Non-Patient Income Over Non-Patient Expense . 97,759.70
Surplus Increase for Year 2 26,971.48
Respectfully submitted, A. T. ALLEN & COMPANY
Raleigh, N. C, February 7, 1943 Certified Public Accountants.
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STATISTICAL REPORT OF ALL ASSOCIATIONS
Associations
Baptisms
Number
of
Churches
Church
Member-
ship
Total
Denomi-
national
Contribu-
tions
Total Local
Church Con-
tributions
(Pastor's
Salary, etc.)
Grand
Total
(Add Last
Two
Columns)
Alexander
Alleghany
Anson
Ashe
Atlantic
Avery
Beulah
Bladen
Blue Ridge
Brier Creek
Brunswick
Brushy Mountain
Buncombe
Cabarrus
Caldwell ,
Carolina
Catawba River
Central
Chowan
Columbus
Dock t ___
Eastern
Elkin
Flat River
French Broad
Gaston County
Green River
Haywood
Johnston
Kings Mountain
Liberty
Little River
Macon County
Mecklenburg
Mitchell
Montgomery
Mount Zion
Neuse
New Found
New South River
Pee Dee
Piedmont
Pilot Mountain
Raleigh
Randolph
Roanoke
Robeson
Rowan
Sandy Creek
Sandy Run
South Fork
South Mountain
South Yadkin
Stanly
Stone Mountain
Stony Fork
Surry
Tar River
Tennessee River
Three Forks
Transylvania
Tuckaseigee
Union
West Chowan
West Liberty
Western North Carolina.
Wilmington
Yadkin
Yancey
275
28
105
213
90
78
188
125
160
246
91
294
601
399
350
311
302
319
352
397
77
197
159
269
279
789
320
430
416
443
322
330
271
591
230
147
765
88
141
310
296
782
840
347
272
816
385
309
395
640
478
123
312
333
68
60
309
356
272
346
139
152
316
450
104
261
261
241
147
6,448
500
1
4
4
2
4
3
4
6
2
6
16
7
9
9
6
11
13
617
421
648
580
983
945
410
672
030
320
815
450
530
369
561
942
406
309
250
58 1 ;
80';
751
688
966
054
831
755
357
379
059
623
324
482
307
593
396
488
872
794
850
969
379
230
201
57'*
735
572
654
284
167
629
978
613
191
738
840
5'>7
52')
592
654
636
951
066
645
484
574
935.37
609.14
400.42
867.53
704.85
657.40
354.64
248.66
388.41
653.79
791.39
868.99
501.24
515.79
644.05
511.40
215.17
934.70
969.80
572.65
816.78
555.06
737.99
582.24
886.70
409.59
795.39
696.93
888.86
252.33
343.52
594.64
550.25
227.50
108.32
362.21
040.12
586.02
681.90
280.63
299.93
578.39
788.14
881.63
186.34
720.36
692.15
819.57
928.98
528.17
109.76
513.52
525.01
867.47
028.14
708.59
877.69
541.27
709.10
145.87
091.76
643.12
312.54
960.58
853.57
617.97
636.22
559.45
001.53
30
2
10
11
62
9
40
30
35
16
14
27
164
140
114
58
85
84
92
57
6
48
23
81
22
241
41
54
59
162
67
57
20
260
27
24
351
29
11
98
72
306
284
120
49
176
101
93
64
127
121
24
87
68
4
3
43
69
17
27
18
25
52
96
7
21
128
20
13
,309.89
,861.97
,204.40
,695.05
,138.46
,956.48
,216.06
,590.04
,902.98
,633.67
,974.33
,705.70
,400.31
,319.45
,841.33
,224.25
,944.68
,688.39
,645.93
,271.04
,294.20
,859.76
,087.74
,428.52
,339.77
,646.49
,507.07
,438.42
,519.68
,452.08
,414.82
,813.17
,548.56
,466.70
,938.42
,936.87
,519.62
,247.16
,142.44
,581.13
,687.62
,881.71
,361.20
,000.99
,851.88
,791.55
,433.32
,632.71
,235.34
,648.31
,396.03
,496.06
,881.06
,101.30
,938.94
,147.12
,836.92
,360.77
,422.85
,515.04
,884.09
,405.14
,926.30
,530.32
,775.61
,639.59
,192.68
,282.76
,985.39
35
3
11
14
73
11
50
39
46
19
19
33
196
172
131
69
107
131
122
75
8
67
27
96
30
305
51
69
75
232
97
78
24
326
32
31
435
37
11
124
93
399
368
154
60
232
152
110
83
153
164
27
108
85
5
4
52
93
21
33
23
29
65
146
8
25
173
26
17
,245.26
,471.11
,604.82
,562.58
,843.31
,613.88
,570.70
,838.70
,291.39
,287.46
,765.72
,574.69
,901.55
.835.24
,485.38
,735.65
,159.85
,623.09
,615.73
,843.69
,110.98
,414.82
,825.73
,010.76
,226.47
,056.08
,302.46
,135.35
,408.54
,704.41
,758.34
,407.81
,098.81
,694.20
,046.74
,299.08
,559.74
,833.18
,824.34
,861.76
,987.55
,460.10
,149.34
,882.62
,038.22
,511.91
,125.47
,452.28
,164.32
,176.48
,505.79
,009.58
,406.07
,968.77
,967.08
,855.71
,714.61
,902.04
,131.95
,660.91
,975.85
,048.26
,238.84
,490.90
,629.18
,257.56
,828.90
,842.21
,986.92
Totals 21,308
2,644 551,348 1,420
19 5,033,949.63 6,454,818.82
INDIAN ASSOCIATIONS— ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Burnt Swamp
186
58
24
12
3,076
1,051
$ 2,923.31
284.51
$ 13,945.42
1,609.38
3
16,868.73
1,893.89
Totals
244
36
4,127
3 3,207.82
$ 15,554.80
$
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226 N. C. Baptist State Convention
STATISTICAL SUMMARY
L. L. Morgan, Secretary
This is my eighth annual report as Statistical Secretary. The associations
began to meet in July and closed in November. These reports are based on
the associational year, and the financial figures are not the same as those
based on the calendar year reported by our Convention Treasurer. There
are sixty-nine white associations and two Indian associations as associate
members of the Convention.
Even though we are in the midst of a world conflict such as none of us
has ever experienced, we have had a marvelous year along every line. Com-
paring figures for 1943 with those of 1942, and other years, in the matter of
finances, we have the best record in the history of the Convention. Our gain
in gifts to all objects during the year was $974,809.88 or 17.8 per cent. Our
percentage of increase to benevolent objects was almost double what it was to
local objects.
Church Membership
There are now 2,644 churches with a combined membership of 551,348.
Last year we reported 2,609 churches with a membership of 537,680. This
represents a gain of 35 churches and 13,668 members. There are 36 Indian
Churches with a membership of 4,127.
Baptisms
During the year we received 21,308 members by baptism. This is a gain of
1,766 compared with 1942 figures. The number of churches reporting no
baptisms decreased from 629 to 608. Thirty-six Indian Churches reported 244
baptisms, an increase of 103 compared with 1942 figures.
Gifts
Gifts to all missions, education and benevolences amounted to $1,420,869.19,
which is a gain of $304,595.57 or 26.2 per cent. For all local work such as
debts, buildings, fuel, lights, pastoral support and other operating expenses,
the sum given was $5,033,949.63. This sum represents a gain over last year
of $670,214.31 or 15.4 per cent. The total of all gifts to all causes was
$6,454,818.82. As stated above the total increase in contributions to all causes
was $974,809.88, or 17.8 per cent.
Cooperating Churches
The number of churches contributing to denominational objects was 2,537.
This is an increase of 123 churches compared with last year. One hundred
eight churches failed to give to one or more of the causes fostered by the Con-
vention. Last year there were 195 churches that failed to give to one or more
objects.
Per Capita Gifts
Per capita gifts to denominational objects for 1942 were $2.07, in 1943
they were $2.58. Per capita gifts to local objects for 1942 were $8.11. In
1943 they were $9.14. Per capita gifts to all objects, local and outside, for
1942 were $10.19. In 1943 they were $11.17.
Sunday Schools
There are 2,644 churches of which 2,615 have Sunday Schools. Twenty-
nine churches reported no Sunday Schools. There are 27 Mission Sunday
Schools, making a total of 2,642 Sunday Schools with a membership of 402,244.
This is a net gain of 33 Sunday Schools and a decrease of 1,519 members com-
pared with last year's figures. This loss is not alarming when we consider the
vast number of our young men and women who have been inducted into service
and the thousands of others who are on defense jobs throughout the nation.
Annual of Session 1943 227
There are thirty-six Indian Schools with a membership of 3,687. The four
churches reporting the largest Sunday School average attendance in the state
are:
Raleigh-Tabernacle 1058
Charlotte— First 816
Winston-Salem — First 806
Greensboro — First 805
Vacation Bible Schools
The scarcity of gasoline and tires made it hard for rural churches to con-
duct their school this time, but 615 reports have been received up to date.
This is 34 below last year, but we expect more than that many reports to come
in yet. The four associations that lead in the number of schools are : Mount
Zion, 50 ; Pilot Mountain, 36 ; Little River, 25 ; and Roanoke, 23.
Training Union
Of the 2,644 churches in the State, 995 have some form of Training Union
work reported as compared with 1,049 in 1942. Nine hundred thirty-six have
a director supervising the work. The total number of units, Story Hour
through Adult, this year is 3,260. In addition 9 Indian churches reported 13
units of Training Union work. Ten thousand seven hundred and seventy
training course awards were issued.
Baptist Book Store
The Baptist Book Store, under the management of Mrs. Roger P. Marshall,
is located at Baptist Headquarters, first floor, of the Biblical Recorder Building,
Raleigh.
The Baptist Book Store is owned jointly by the Baptist Sunday School
Board of Nashville, Tennessee, and the North Carolina Baptist State Con-
vention ; and is operated as a convenience for North Carolina Baptists. It
can furnish any book in print and all supplies needed for every Department
of the church, except quarterlies, which must be ordered from Nashville,
Tennessee.
Woman's Missionary Union
Woman's Missionary Union statistical report runs from January 1 to De-
cember 31, and 1943 reports cannot be compiled before this Annual of North
Carolina State Convention goes to press. Therefore, the figures below are
for 1942.
In 1942 there were 3,917 organizations of Woman's Missionary Union re-
porting. The roll is revised each year and when no report is sent during the
year the organization is dropped from the roll until it does report. The mem-
bership in these organizations totaled 84,728. Organized work was done in
sixty-seven associations, sixty-five holding an annual meeting separate from
the general association. Twelve hundred and nine organizations made one of
the three points on the Standard of Excellence and 452 made all the ten
points, being A-l. Three thousand one hundred sixty-one mission study
classes were held, with 11,034 seals awarded. The 1942 Heck Memorial
Offering was $8,376.00.
Total contributions for the year were $387,728.60.
Officers at present: Mrs. J. S. Farmer, President; Miss Mary Currin, Ex-
ecutive Secretary ; Miss Ora Alford, Office Secretary and Treasurer ; Miss
Kathryn Abee, Young People's Secretary. Offices 213-214 Biblical Recorder
Building, Raleigh.
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WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Associations and Superintendents
Number
Societies
Member-
ship
Alleghany — Mrs. A. O. Joines, Sparta
Alexander — Mrs. Leach Gooden, Hiddenite
Ashe — Mrs. H. D. Quessenberry, West Jefferson
Atlantic — Mrs. L. B. Daniel, New Bern
Avery — Mrs. R. T. Teague, Newland
Beulah — Mrs. J. F. Funderburk, Roxboro
Bladen — Mrs. W. F. Williamson, Elizabethtown
Blue Ridge — Mrs. C. C. Parker, Marion.
Brier Creek — Mrs. Richard Martip, Ronda
Brunswick — Mrs. Martin B. Robbins, Winnabow
Brushy Mountain' — Mrs. George Johnson, Wilkesboro
Buncombe — Mrs. D. C. Martin, Asheville
Burnt Swamp — Mrs. P. A. Underwood, Pembroke
Cabarrus — Mrs. L. R. Crooks, Concord
Caldwell — Mrs. C. A. Bowman, Granite Falls
Carolina — Mrs. O. J. Smith, Hendersonville
Catawba River — Mrs. W. L. McSwain, Glen Alpine
Central — Mrs. C. F. Gaddy, Raleigh
Cherokee
Chowan — Mrs. C. T. Doughtie, Edenton
Columbus — Mrs. Joe Edmund, Chadbourn
Dock — Mrs. M. L. Mintz, Shallotte
Eastern — Mrs. Grover Britt, Clinton
Elkin— Mrs. C. N. Myers, Elkin
Flat River — Mrs. Fred A. Phipps, Oxford
French Broad — Mrs. R. L. Moore, Mars Hill
Gaston — Mrs. M. L. Barnes, Gastonia
Green River — Mrs. Z. M. Freeman, Rutherfordton
Haywood — Mrs. H. G. Hammett, Waynesville
Johnston — Mrs. J. E. Wilder, Raleigh
King's Mountain — Mrs. John Wacaster, Cherryville
Liberty — Mrs. Louis Gaines, Lexington
Little River — Mrs. Charles Howard, Buie's Creek
Macon — Mrs. J. G. Benfield, Franklin
Mecklenburg — Mrs. B. S. Blanton, Charlotte
Mitchell — Mrs. N. G. Pittman, Spruce Pine
Montgomery — Mrs. C. B. Trammel, Troy
Mount Zion — Mrs. George N. Harward, Chapel Hill
Neuse — Mrs. C. M. Billings, Dudley
New South River — Mrs. Lewis A. Gavin, Newton Grove.
Pee Dee — Mrs. J. D. Nash, Hamlet
Piedmont — Mrs. J. Ben Eller, Greensboro
Pilot Mountain — Miss Ora Motsinger, Winston-Salem
Raleigh— Mrs. J. E. Wilder, Raleigh
Randolph — Mrs. Arthur Presnell, Ramseur
Roanoke — Mrs. W. D. Joyner, Rocky Mount
Robeson — -Mrs. J. G. Stephens, Orrum
Rowan — Mrs. J. L. Kirk, Salisbury
Sandy Creek — Mrs. E. A4. Harris, Aberdeen
Sandy Run — Mrs. Ed Tedder, Ellenboro
South Fork — Mrs. W. G. Bandy, Lincolnton
South Mountain— Mrs. T. B. Hull, Vale
South Yadkin— Mrs. W. H. Dodd, Mocksville
.Stanly — Mrs. T. S. Crutchfield, Albemarle
Stone Mountain— Mrs. Winfrey Luffman, State Road
Surry — Mrs. W. A. Jackson, Mount Airy
Tar River — Mrs. Ada S. Parker, Henderson
Tennessee River — Mrs. E. H. Corpening, Jr., Tapoco
Three Forks — Mrs. S. C. Eggers, Boone
Transylvania — Mrs. S. F. McAuley, Brevard
Tuckaseigee — Mrs. Chas. L. Allison
Union — Mrs. Mark Hill, Marshville
West Chowan — Mrs. W. E. White, Colerain
West Liberty — Mrs. J. M. Patterson, Vests
Western North Carolina— Mrs. J. V. Hall, Murphy
Wilmington — Mrs. D. W. Merritt, Rocky Point
Yadkin — Mrs. D. H. Craver, Boonville
Yancey — Mrs. A. Z. Jamerson, Burnsville
9
11
70
8
76
33
33
5
32
29
117
48
48
41
46
38
73
Total.
185
70
6
82
14
82
22
102
37
41
77
99
98
65
27
95
13
21
192
44
67
73
127
131
77
51
187
143
40
75
75
99
8
60
56
5
18
119
9
22
21
18
66
198
2
22
51
34
14
3,965
105
260
78
1,222
30
1,208
800
597
120
375
409
1,704
900
1,020
830
800
743
1,939
2,775
1,079
50
1,550
339
1,610
549
2,036
730
872
1,800
2,630
,066
1,500
500
3,256
174
378
4,850
1,000
945
2,105
2,700
4,588
1,925
885
5,317
2,750
960
1,680
1,768
1,871
133
834
1,129
80
1,000
1,820
120
444
363
525
1,168
4,000
15
326
1,700
645
136
84,816
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North Carolina Missionaries on Foreign Fields
Appointed
Mrs. Maude Burke Dozier, Hawaii 1906
Mrs. Mary Bryson Tipton, Shanghai, China 1909
Charles A. Leonard, Kweilin, China 1910
J. B. Hipps, Shanghai, China 1913
H. H. McMillan, Soochow, China 1913
Mrs. Lulla Memory McMillan, Soochow, China 1913
Miss R. Pearle Johnson, Shanghai, China 1915
Miss Attie Bostick, Kweiteh, China 1916
A. R. Gallimore, Waichow, China 1918
J. C. Powell, Shaki, Africa 1919
Mrs. Rosa Hocutt Powell, Shaki, Africa 1919
Miss Alda Grayson, Laichowfu, China 1921
Miss Naomi E. Schell, Tobata, Japan 1921
Miss Katie Murray, Chengchow, China 1922
John A. Abernathy, Tsiman, China 1924
Mrs. Mattie Norman White, Chengchow, China 1924
Frank T. M. Woodward, China 1924
William B. Johnson, Soochow, China 1925
Miss Marjorie Spence, Temuco, Chile 1925
A. S. Gillespie, Kaif eng, China 1931
Mrs. Pauline Pittard Gillespie, Kaif eng, China 1931
Edwin B. Dozier, Hawaii 1933
Mrs. Mary Wiley Dozier, Hawaii 1933
Miss Elizabeth Hale, Shanghai, China 1934
Shelby W. Vance, Yungchow, China 1935
Miss Ruby Daniel, Budapest, Hungary 1935
Lucius Bunyan Olive, China 1935
Mrs. Nell Fowler Olive, China 1935
William Dewey Moore, Rome, Italy 1937
Miss Vivian Estelle Nowell, Nigeria, Africa 1938
Lonnie Elwood Blackman, Hawaii 1938
Mrs. Gladys Yates Blackman, Hawaii 1938
Mrs. Mary Mills Dyer, Japan 1940
Miss Viola Campbell, Mexico 1942
Miss Estelle Councilman, Argentina 1943
Many of these are home on enforced furlough.
230
N. C. Baptist State Convention
MINISTERIAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM
NORTH CAROLINA AT OUR COLLEGES
AND SEMINARIES
BAPTIST BIBLE INSTITUTE
New Orleans, La.
Cline, Reeves, Belmont
Deitz, Wayne C, Charlotte
Gwyn, Charles E., Kernersville
Hord, Richard W., Kings Mountain
Hord, Mrs. Richard W., Kings
Mountain
Johnson, G. Emory, Marion
Johnson, Mrs. G. Emory, Marion
Kendrick, Bertie Lee, Spindale
Kizer, John Ivan, Midland
Kizer, Mrs. John Ivan, Wadeville
Latham, Hughey, Greensboro
Mclntyre, G. Lee, Kannapolis
Mclntyre, Mrs. G. Lee, Kannapolis
Matthews, Broadus H., Kings Moun-
tain
Matthews, Mrs. Broadus EL, Kings
Mountain
Menscer, Mary Lou, Kannapolis
Parham, Joseph W., Kannapolis
Stone, Thurman B., Erwin
Stone, Mrs. Thurman B., Erwin
Summey, Mack M., Black Mountain
Summey, Mrs. Mack M., Black
Mountain
Talley, Frances, Greensboro
Turner, A. Grace, Forest City
Weatherly, Emma, Swannanoa
Wyatt, J. D., Belmont
BOILING SPRINGS JUNIOR COLLEGE
Boiling Springs
Auten, Charles, Gastonia
Brooks, C. E., Gastonia
Bumgardner, T. G., Shelby
Bumgarner, D. L., Taylorsville
Cline, J. T., Henry River
Crapps, Robert W., Shelby
Crawford, R. L., Boiling Springs
Frye, Robert A., Drexel
Hall, Millard F., East Marion
Hastings, Matt L., Drexel
Hill, William C, Gastonia
Hughes, A. C, Shelby
James, Lee A., Taylorsville
Jenkins, Willard L., Lenoir
Johnson, Guy E., Rutherfordton
Kanipe, L. M., Boiling Springs
Kendrick, Olen, Forest City
Martin, Alonzo C, Forest City
Mauldin, J. Howard, Charlotte
Miller, Lawrence A., Lenoir
Mull, Carl J., Morganton
Norville, J. M., Spindale
Ramsey, J. Welford, Valdese
Rhinehardt, W. G., Gastonia
Sheppard, Ralph, Canton
Tate, H. M., Shelby
Thomas, Leonard, Gastonia
Whitesides, Jack, Spindale
Whitesides, Harold, Rutherfordton
CAMPBELL JUNIOR COLLEGE
Buie's Creek
Beasley, William Charles, Louisburg
Gravitte, Johnnie C, Roxboro
Melton, Thomas C, Winston-Salem
Puckett, Joe Riley, Clayton
Pulley, Odell, Youngsville
Teeter, Junius, China Grove
Vaden, Charles Francis, Raleigh
Waddell, George, Buie's Creek
Walker, Baxter Maye, Fayetteville
Weaver, John Marshall, Lincolnton
Young, Etheridge, Lexington
MARS HILL JUNIOR COLLEGE
Mars Hill
Barnes, Frances Marion, Spindale
Beshears, Latt, Hickory
Digh, William David, Lexington
Green, Cardnes Hilliard, Canton
Hall, E. J., Burnsville
Honeycutt, Eddie Barron, Mars Hill
Land, Clifton Edward, Lenoir
Marshall, Ray M., Hendersonville
Mclver, Bruce, Siler City
Pegram, Jimmy, Greensboro
Silvers, Joseph Samuel, Lenoir
Wilson, Paul Nathaniel, Morganton
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231
SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Louisville, Ky.
Allen, Charles Howard, Brevard
Allen, William Lawson, Sylva
Allred, Robert Dickens, Badin
Andrews, Edwin Rudy, Mocksville
Angell, John William, Mocksville
Barnette, Henlee Hulix, Kannapolis
Bass, Burnice G., Clinton
Blackwelder, James Pierce, Pineville
Blanchard, John Rountree, Gatesville
Branch, Douglas M., Cary
Brooks, Arthur Graham, Mooresboro
Brookshire, Woodrow N., Taylors-
ville
Brown, Edward Pierce, Durham
Cashwell, Thomas Leary, Jr., Gas-
tonia
Casner, James Grant, Charlotte
Cheek, Aubrey Kenneth, Henderson-
ville
Christmas, Thomas Clinton, Charlotte
Clyde, Dean Sylvester, Fair Bluff
Compton, Carl Everett, Greensboro
Crisp, James Allen, Jr., Brevard
Crook, Roger H., Chapel Hill
Cross, Charles C, Greensboro
Deaton, Thomas Paul, Shannon
Dedmond, Francis Berniel, Salisbury
Early, Paul Davis, Winston-Salem
Farrar, John Sherman, Jr., Gastonia
Fulk, Thomas Jefferson, Mount Airy
Glass, Victor Thomas, Spray
Gordon, Lewis Howard, Monroe
Grant, Worth Collins, High Point
Guy, Thomas Sloane, Jr., Gatesville
Hamby, Claude Howard, Marion
Harris, Oscar Jacob, Valdese
Hawkins, Harold Leighton, Gastonia
Hicks, John Grason, Kings Mountain
Highfill, William Lawrence, Winston-
Salem
Hinson, Jasper, Fair Bluff
Holton, Billy Steed, Greensboro
Huggins, Howard Brice, Tabor City
Jackson, Bernice William, Oxford
Jones, George Alexander, Saluda
Jones, Tommie L., Spray
Kirk, James P., Lewisville
Lamm, Wilbur Clayton, Louisburg
Lasater, Roberts Council, Durham
Lennon, Samuel Judson, Wake Forest
Long, Joe Mack, Severn
Lovelace, Marc Hoyle, High Point
Lovin, Austin, Greensboro
McGee, John Sidney, Winston-Salem
McManus, Harold Lynn, Sanford
Middleton, Hubert Kinson, Yadkin-
ville
Moore, Guy Clayton, Spring Hope
Moore, Oscar Daulton, Burlington
Moore, Raymond Elsworth, Spring
Hope
Morgan, Enoch Sumpter, Mars Hill
Oates, Wayne, Durham
Perry, James Howell, Louisburg
Poole, William Augustus, Dunn
Potter, James S., Wilmington
Prevatte, Archibald C, Lumberton
Reese, Wilford William, Marion
Rich, Thomas Lenwood, Jr., Garland
Roberts, Ray Everett, Asheville
Sodeman, Lowell Frazier, Wilson
Mills
Talley, Charles Odas, Greensboro
Teague, Jarvis Wilson, Cave Creek-
Terrell, William Isaac, Burlington
Turner, James Lee, Charlotte
Ussery, Benjamin B., Rockingham
Wagoner, Walter R., Winston-Salem
Walden, Henry E., Jr., Monroe
West, William Franciscus, Roxboro
Wood, Wyman E., Forest City
Young, Richard Knox, Roxboro
Zukor, Stephen Harry, Morganton
SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Seminary Hill, Texas
Allen, James W., Kannapolis
Ashley, J. Thaddious, Morrisville
Baker, James E., Lumberton
Bamberg, Mrs. Joe, Clinton
Beasley, Barnard, Fayetteville
Bell, Roger, Scotland Neck
Bell, Mrs. Roger, Scotland Neck
Bradley, Oren, Siler City
Brewington, Harvie, Lumberton
Campbell, Elizabeth, Hickory
Ellis, Cline D., Spruce Pine
Featherston, J. R., Cramerton
Featherston, Mrs. J. R., Cramerton
Nancock, Mary Ellen, Asheville
Hare, Albertina, Apex
Holmes, John D., Farmville
Holmes, Mrs. J. D., Farmville
Holt, Robert Le Roy, Asheville
Ingram, Ray P., Asheville
Jones, J. B., Morganton
Jones, Mrs. J. B., Morganton
McLean, M. R., Wilmington
McLean, Mrs. M. R., Wilmington
Martin, Davis C, Asheville
Matheny, Essie, Mooresboro
Newton, L. J., Dunn
Ousley, John W., Lillington
Peterson, Linwood, Leland
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Simms, Stewart B., Raleigh
Simms, Mrs. S. B., Raleigh
Smith, Maisie, Morganton
Teague, C. W., Smithfield
Walker, S. Guy, Gastonia
Walker, Mrs. S. G., Gastonia
Woolweaver, L. M., Raleigh
Woolweaver, Mrs. L. M., Raleigh
WAKE FOREST COLLEGE
Wake Forest
Abrams, R. W., Rutherfordton
Allgood, J. D., Jr., Winston- Salem
Baker, Herbert M., Pikeville
Beck, Gilmer J., Lexington
Bennett, R. O., Jr., Wake Forest
Bingham, Yates, Monroe
Bishop, Fred E., Durham
Bowen, C. F., East Durham
Braswell, C. W., Princeton
Brock, L. R., Jr., Wilson
Bryan, F. B., Hope Mills
Carroll, Chas., Jr., Clayton
Chapman, C. D., Wake Forest
Coates, Wm. Edward, Raleigh
Collins, Vernon C, Forest City
Conn, Aaron M., Louisburg
Dilday, Herman T., Murfreesboro
Edwards, L. R., Wake Forest
Elliott, Morris, Toecane
Farrar, Chas. W., Gastonia
Glass, E. W., Sanford
Grady, A. D., New Bern
Greene, R. T., Wake Forest
Harris, C. V., Morganton
Hartsell, Bruce V., Franklinton
Hawkins, L. F., Gastonia
Hendrix, Wm., Cramerton
High, Sam, Dallas
Hobbs, J. D., Jr., Wilmington
Hughes, R. L., Youngsville
Jones, Miller T., Shelby
Killian, Harold, Statesville
Knight, Calvin, Leaksville
Little, Thurston, Freeland
McMillan, C. W., Whiteville
Mattox, J. O., Wilson
Moody, D. M., St. Pauls
Newton, T. L., Raleigh
Osborne, Mark R., Jr., Zebulon
Badgett, W. W., Forest City
Parham, Wallace E., Asheville
Parham, Earl H., Rocky Mount
Parrish, C. G., Zebulon
Pitt, K. A., Roanoke Rapids
Poston, E. E., Shelby
Reece, T. L., Jonesville
Royal, Peyton, Parkersburg
Russell, E. P., Wake Forest
Searight, David B., Washington
Smith, J. Malbert, Winston-Salem
Smith, L. C, Fuquay Springs
Smith, Wm. P., Graham
Smith, Wm. T., Reidsville
Southard - , W. J., Leaksville
Sparrow, B. B., Chapel Hill
Thompson, Horace G., Louisburg
Vinson, Wm. H., Jr., Woodland
Walker, L. H., Raleigh
Waters, C. S., Belmont
Watson, E. C, Jr., Garland
Wethington, L. E., Durham
Whitaker, Bruce, Shelby
Williams, T. C, Jr., Burlington
WINGATE JUNIOR COLLEGE
WlNGATE
Baker, S. D., Kannapolis
Bumgarner, A. B., Kannapolis
Deese, Tommy, Monroe
Fitzgerald, Ernest, Waxhaw
Furr, W. T., Kannapolis
Greene, Macon, Stony Fork
James, R. C, Kannapolis
Ray, J. C, Kannapolis
Settlemyer, Z. W., Wingate
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION TRAINING SCHOOL
Louisville, Ky.
Adams, Evelyn, Conover
Bland, Grace, Gastonia
Brown, Ethel, Greensboro
Childs, Margaret Jane, Lincolnton
Gravitte, Ella Sue, Roxboro
Hampton, Evelyn, Winston-Salem
Hoots, Kathleen, Winston- Salem
Ingle, Zubie, Statesville
Joyner, Judith, Tabor City
McCroskey, Ruby, Rockingham
Mayo, Hilda, Rocky Mount
Motley, Myra, Goldsboro
Orr, Harriett, Charlotte
Paschall, Louise, Reidsville
Penny, Daphne, Raleigh
Scarlett, Dora Page, Durham
Swann, Julia, Statesville
Terrell, Fannie, Burlington
Terry, Gladys, Siler City
Winstead, Frances, Farmville
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EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORS— CHURCH SECRETARIES-
FINANCIAL SECRETARIES— YOUNG PEOPLE'S
WORKER, AND MINISTERS OF MUSIC
EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORS
Name Church and Address
Andrews, Miss Leah Eller Memorial Baptist Church, Greensboro
Bates, Miss Katherine St. John's Baptist Church, Charlotte
Barnes, Mrs. Beamer First Baptist Church, Thomasville
Braswell, Miss Naomi First Baptist Church, Lumberton
Burchett, Mr. Chas East Baptist Church, Gastonia
Burns, Mrs. Ford A Tabernacle Baptist Church, Raleigh
Chaney, Miss Wynona Temple Baptist Church, Durham
Crandle, Mr. Paul Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte
Easom, Mr. Horace B First Baptist Church, Shelby
Everette, Mrs. J. R Blackwell Memorial Church, Elizabeth City
Giddings, Mrs. Roy First Baptist Church, Durham
Harris, Miss Helen E First Baptist Church, Morganton
Hensley, Miss Ila First Baptist Church, Lexington
Hodge, Mr. C. S First Baptist Church, Greensboro
Humphrey, Miss Mary First Baptist Church, Asheville
Jennings, Miss Mildred First Baptist Church, Williamston
Lassiter, Miss Elizabeth First Baptist Church, Henderson
McElrath, Mr. Hugh Western Avenue Baptist Church, Statesville
Patrick, Miss Thelma First Baptist Church, High Point
Porter, Miss Edna First Baptist Church, St. Pauls
Posey, Miss Sarah South Lenoir Baptist Church, Lenoir
Ray, Miss Sue Ellen First Baptist Church, Wilmington
Rhinehart, Miss Dorothy First Baptist Church, Belmont
Roberts, Miss Marie First Baptist Church, Elizabeth City
Starnes, Miss Mable Ashboro Street Church, Greensboro
Starnes, Mrs. Glenn Calvary Baptist Church, Asheville
Stephens, Miss Sarah First Baptist Church, Hickory
Thomas, Miss Mildred West Durham Baptist Church, Durham
Timmerman, Miss Lucy M First Baptist Church, Hendersonville
Wall, Mr. Woodrow Grace Street Baptist Church, Durham
Washburn, Mrs. A. V First Baptist Church, Goldsboro
Welch, Miss Lucille First Baptist Church, Gastonia
White, Mrs. Phil E First Baptist Church, Leaksville
Zentmeyer, Miss Myrtle First Baptist Church, Fayetteville
CHURCH SECRETARIES
Beardsly, Mrs. W. H Pritchard Memorial Baptist Church, Charlotte
Blake, Mrs. Paul First Baptist Church, Lumberton
Clark, Miss Beverly First Baptist Church, Shelby
Coward, Mrs. S. H First Baptist Church, Wilmington
Davidson, Miss Lucille First Baptist Church, Roxboro
Farmer, Mrs. W. D First Baptist Church, Rocky Mount
Havnaer, Mrs. L. E First Baptist Church, Lenoir
Lanter, Mrs. S. G First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem
Littlejohn, Miss Euwilda First Baptist Church, Gastonia
Maxwell, Miss Viola First Baptist Church, Raleigh
Perry, Miss Pauline First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem (Associate)
Proctor, Miss A. Lucille Ardmore Baptist Church, Winston-Salem
Riggs, Miss Elizabeth Grace Street Baptist Church, Durham
Seamster, Miss Janie Hocutt Memorial Church, Burlington
Sheets, Miss Marie First Baptist Church, Charlotte
Warren, Mrs. J. W First Baptist Church, Durham
Wilmar, Mrs. R. B Hayes Barton Baptist Church, Raleigh
Wheeler, Miss Eleanor First Baptist Church, Asheville
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FINANCIAL SECRETARIES
Name Church and Address
Bullard, Mr. L. G Tabernacle Church, Raleigh
YOUNG PEOPLE'S DIRECTORS
Ruth, Miss Vera Tabernacle Church, Raleigh
MINISTERS OF MUSIC
Brietz, Mr. Raymond Pritchard Memorial Baptist Church, Charlotte
Easom, Mr. Horace First Baptist Church, Shelby
Emurion, Mr. Henri First Baptist Church, Wilmington
Gough, Mr. Frank First Baptist Church, Asheville
Johnson, Mrs. Wingate M Ardmore Baptist Church, Winston-Salem
Miller, Mr. H. Grady First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem
Oncley, Mr. Paul B First Baptist Church, Durham
ASSOCIATIONAL MISSIONARIES
Association Missionary and Address
Brushy Mt Thompson, Miss Lucy, North Wilkesboro
Caldwell Keller, Miss Ruth, Granite Falls
Carolina Banks, Miss Blanch, Hendersonville
Haywood Lewis, Miss Madge, Waynesville
Little River Rogers, Miss Zula, Mamers
Macon and W. Liberty Gibson, Mrs. Fannie, Franklin
Pilot Mountain Lawrence, Rev. Tom, 2026 Academy St., W. S.
Roanoke Bullard, Mr. W. G., Rocky Mount
South Fork Sowers, Miss Texie, Newton
Surry Marks, Miss Willa, 132 Rawley Ave., Mt. Airy
Tuckaseigee Johnson, Miss Gretchin, Cullowhee
Wilmington Pate, Rev. E. W., Wilmington
Yancey and French Broad Hilliard, Miss Laura Mae, Burnsville
ORDAINED MINISTERS WHO ARE NOW SERVING AS
CHAPLAINS IN THE ARMY AND NAVY
Andrews, W. O., Robersonville
Arrington, C. A., Elizabeth City
Baker, E. F., Andrews
Baker, H. O., Charlotte
Baldwin, Carroll C, Clarkton
Beach, B. S., Troy
Bennett, Ivan L., Ash
Biles, T. H., High Point_
Blackmore, James H., King
Blanchard, Henry N., Greensboro
Blythe, Norman, Harrellsville
Brooks, G. Webb, Maxton
Brown, Millard R., Windsor
Cain, L. W., Casar
Connell, Raymond, Boonville
Costner, Robert L., Greensboro
Cannon, Ralph L., Zebulon
Crow, C. C, Lattimore
Davis, J. W., Durham
Duling, C. W., Burgaw
Evans, L. R., Spencer
Everett, J. R., Washington
Ford, Gerald K., New London
Fordham, B. B., Farmville
Forsythe, Paul, Boonville
Francis, C. Arthur, Winterville
Funderburk, Guy B., Greensboro
Freeman, Allen, Salisbury
Godwin, Clarence E., Ahoskie
Gupton, B. L., Pittsboro
Gwaltney, R. C, Statesville
Hagler, O. J., Oteen
Hill, Woodrow W., High Point
Hobgood, C. E., Hertford
Hollingsworth, L. H., Wake Forest
Holland, T. C, Mooresboro — Major
Howington, N. P., Shelby
Hudson, J. A., Catawba
Huggins, F. M., Hendersonville
Israel, F. L., Marshallberg
Leppard, LeRoy, Wendell
Long, J. Raymond, Charlotte
Lyons, W. W., Lenoir
McConnell, Charles B., Nashville
McGee, Henry F., Jacksonville
Mabry, V. L., Monroe
Marler, J. D., Lowell
Milne, W. P., Jr., Aulander
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Morgan, J. Andrew, Cary
Muckle, Coy, Charlotte
Newman, Leslie R., Wendell
Nickens, Paul D., Murfreesboro
Pollock, A. L., Red Oak
Pridgen, Lee, Wake Forest
Proctor, Gilmer, Mocksville
Reynolds, M. E., Asheville
Searcy, John C, Avondale
Starling, H. R., Greensboro
Teague, L. W., Spruce Pine
Tomlinson, A. S., Laurinburg
Upchurch, P. B., Monroe
Vann, Luther R., Bakersville
Walker, A. A., Greensboro
Wall, Broadus E., Hendersonville
Waterson, J. V., Pine Tops
Williams, W. W., Oteen
Willis, E. G., Belcross
Worley, Wade W., Tuxedo
LIST OF ORDAINED MINISTERS
This roster of ministers is made from the records furnished by the Asso-
ciational Clerks who get the information from the Clerks of the churches.
If when a minister changes his address he will notify the Statistical Secretary
of such change it will be greatly appreciated. From this list is made the
mailing list for use at Baptist Headquarters in Raleigh, also* the list of North
Carolina ministers published in the Annual of the Southern Baptist Conven-
tion. Please give notice immediately of any needed correction.
(Signed) L. L. Morgan,
Statistical Secretary.
Ordained Ministers Who Are Pastors
Abernethy, C. A., Marshallberg
Abernethy, W. W., Hillsboro
Abrams, W. E., Marion, Rt. 4
Acree, R. W., Burgaw
Adams, C. L., Santeetlah
Adams, R. E., Winston-Salem, Rt. 7
Adams, T. A., Adams
Adams, Wm. T., Yadkinville
Adkins, Eulis G., Ramseytown
Adkinson, W. C, Swepsonville
Akins, R. Lane, Hayesville
Aldrich, A. Douglas, Wake Forest
Alexander, Arvill P., Elkin
Alexander, M. O., Beaufort
Allard, J. E., Wilmington, Rt. 2
Allen, C. L., Waynesville, Rt. 1
Alley, H. M., Highlands
Allgood, J. G., Yadkinville, Route 1
Allman, J. H., Mill Springs
Allred, J. M., Pomona, Box 119
Almond, W. B., Albemarle, Rt. 4
Anderson, George, Marion
Anderson, H. B., Durham, 1104
North Mangum St.
Anderson, J. A., Penrose, Rt. 1
Anderson, O. A., Rowland
Andrews, Victor L., Mocksville
Arant, N. F., Kinston, Rt. 4
Armstrong, A. C, West Asheville
Armstrong, T. D., High Point, 4134
Hamilton St.
Arnette, Roy, Dillon, S. C.
Arrowood, R. C, Burnsville
Ashley, Arthur C, Crumpler
Ashley, R. C, Bina
Ashley, G. N., Salemburg
Ashley, W. D., Blowing Rock, Rt. 1
Atkins, J. L. t Raleigh, Rt. 4
Atkins, R. E., Raleigh, 27 Dixie
Trail
Atkinson, Laurie J., Lillington, Rt. 3
Atkinson, C. B., Erlanger
Austin, B. F., Kings Mountain
Ayers, W. A., Shelby, 914 S.
Lafayette St.
Ayscue, J. E., Buie's Creek
Averett, E. Y., Benson
Bagby, A. Paul, Louisburg
Bagwell, Jack R., Fairview, Box 1
Bagwell, W. L., China Grove
Bailey, Arlan A., Gastonia
Bailes, E. W., Durham, 3009 Banner
Ave.
Bain, G. A., Dunn, Rt. 1
Baker, C. E., Wilmington
Baker, J. Wade, Rich Square
Baker, Jeter P., Marion
Baker, Herbert M., Pikeville
Baker, Smoot A., Spencer
Baker, S. D., Kannapolis, Rt. 1
Ball, Kimsev R., Marshall, Rt. 1
Ballard, W. H., Buckner
Ballenger, Paul R., Naples
Banister, M. L., Oxford
Banning, Ralph, Horse Shoe
Barker, Robert, Murphy
Barker, W. H., High Point, Rt. 3,
Box 362
Barnes, C. R., Asheville, 30 Forsythe
Street
Barnes, J. H., Fayetteville, Rt. 3
Barnes, M. L., Gastonia, Route 2
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Barnett, Das Kelly, Chapel Hill
Barnett, L. P., Union Mills
Barrett, J. H., Concord
Bartlett, E. R., Asheville, Box 7042
Baucom, C. E., Wilson
Baucom, H. W, Wake Forest
Baucom, H. W., Jr., Statesville, 507
Western Ave.
Baucom, W. T., Spruce Pine
Bean, Leonard B., Mortimer
Bearden, Wm. Clyde, Greensboro,
2809 High Point Road
Beavers, E. A., Suit
Beck, Arnold, Smokemont
Belton, J. O., Mount Airy
Belue, W. Broadus, Landrum, S. C.
Benfield, H. S., Lenoir
Benfield, R. Knolan, Hickory
Benfield, J. G., Franklin, Rt. 3
Bennett, Edward P., Morganton, Rt. 3
Bennett, H. B., Shallotte
Bennett, H. M., Apple Grove
Bennett, J. C, Albemarle, Route 1
Bennett, R. O., Wake Forest
Bennett, Willis, Oteen
Benton, A. L., Swansboro
Benton, Bruce, Rockingham
Biddle, J. T., Enka
Biggerstaff, W. P., Shelby
Billings, Roy, Winston-Salem, Rt. 3
Binkley, J. N., Harmony, Rt. 1
Binkley, O. T., Wake Forest
Bishop, Joseph, Gay
Black, J. H, Windom
Blackburn, A. F., Lincolnton, Rt. 4
Blackburn, G. R., Whitehead
Blackburn, J. Glenn, Lumberton
Blackburn, R. G, Lincolnton, Rt. 4
Blackman, J. F., Buie's Creek
Blackwell, Hoyt, Mars Hill
Blake, J. M., Raleigh, Rt. 1
Blalock, Jesse, Shelby, Rt. 4
Blalock, John N., Norwood
Blankenship, F. P., Dillsboro
Blanton, M. D., Forest City
Blanton, S. L., Wilmington
Blevins, Fred, Wilkesboro
Blevins, Hillery, Hays
Blevins, J. C, Grassy Creek
Blevins, M. L., Springfield
Blevins, S. L., Hays
Blue, W. C, Manteo
Blythe, C. E., Etowah
Blythe, J. E., Hendersonville
Bobbitt, C. B., Kings Mountain
Bobbitt, David E., Charlotte
Boggan, W. H, Rockingham
Bolch, O. H., Gastonia, 207 West 8th
St., Box 425
Bolick, W. P., Lenoir, Rt. 3
Booker, E. B., Fayetteville, 1016 Bel-
mont Circle
Bookout, L. E., Gastonia, Victory
Station
Bostic, Wade, Shelby
Bower, F. A., Morganton, 207 Avery
Avenue
Bowers, B. A., Gastonia
Bowers, H. C, Middlesex
Bowman, J. N., Roxboro, Rt. 2
Bradley, Earl L., Wilmington, 718
North 4th Street
Bradley, L. V., Henrietta
Bradley, Ralph, Whittier
Bradley, Silas, Tryon, Rt. 1
Bradley, W. J., Albemarle
Braum, M. L., Salisbury, Catawba
College
Bray, B. F., Marion
Bray, Tom W., Faith
Brazil, S. K., Charlotte, 216 Brad-
ford Drive
Breedlove, W. M., Glenville
Brickhouse, R. E., Warrenton
Bridgers, Leo T., Durham
Bridges, O. B., Shelby, Route 4
Briggs, W. T. C, Greenville, 1106
Cotanche Street
Brinkley, R. O., Spencer, Box 486
Brinson, H. F., Currie
Brisson, C. E., Dublin
Brock, J. A., Shelby, 209 Gidney
Street
Brock, Paul T., Greenville, S. C,
27 Thurston St.
Brooks, B. B., Mooresboro, Rt. 1
Brooks, D. P., Elizabeth City
Brooks, J. C, Granite Falls
Brooks, C. E., Gastonia, 417 Park
Avenue
Brothers, A. R., Rockingham
Brown, A. L., Southport
Brown, Denver T., Marshall, Rt. 1
Brown, J. C, Branberry
Brown, J. E., Tuckaseigee
Brown, j. M., Nealsville
Brown, William, Blowing Rock
Brown, Willard A., Madison, Box 6
Brown, W. Herbert, Bryson City
Brown, W. V., West Hillsboro, Box
114
Bryan, G. McLeod, Garner
Bryant, H. G, Whitnel
Bryant, J. S., Roaring River
Bryant, K. E., Pittsboro
Bryant, W. B., Connelly Springs
Bryson, J. W., Candler, Rt. 1
Buchanan, Ade, Celo
Buchanan, C. A., Toecane, Rt. 1
Buchanan, J. A., Clarissa
Buchanan, Will L., Bryson City
Buckner, A. J., Asheville, 61 Han-
over Street
Buckner, J. J., Mars Hill
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Buckner, J. W., Concord, 191 Frank-
lin Avenue
Bugg, Lawrence W., West Asheville,
284 State Street
Bullard, G. W., Rocky Mount, 315
Rose Street
Bumgarner, D. L., Taylorsville, Rt. 2
Bumgarner, E. V., Taylorsville, Rt. 2
Bunn, John H., Morehead City
Burch, G. W., Wadesboro, Rt. 3
Burchette, Chas. P., Gastonia, East
Baptist Church
Burgiss, L. Grady, Greensboro, 103
East Wendover Ave.
Burkett, G. C, Jefferson
Burnett, R. B., Lenoir, Rt. 2
Burnette, O. F., Cruso
Burris, C. C, Wingate
Bushyhead, Ben, Whittier
Butler, Jas. H., Wilmington, 16 S.
Washington St.
Byerly, E. W., Bear Creek, Rt. 2
Byrd, C. E., Durham, Rt. 1
Byrd, Eugene, Midland
Byrd, Manley, Hays
Byrum, J. T., Tyner
Cable, J. E., Yellow Creek
Cadle, R. A, Enfield
Cain, Guy S., Rural Hall
Caldwell, C. A., Mount Holly
Caldwell, E. J., North Belmont
Caldwell, W. H., Sparta
Cale, W. F., Jr., Tyner
Calloway, J. W., State Road
Camp, W. G., Mooresboro, Rt. 1
Campbell, A. L., Landis, Box 151
Campbell, A. Hartwell, Greenville
Campbell, R. C, Cranberry
Campbell, Roy D., Bakersville
Campbell, R. R., Louisburg, Rt. 4
Campbell, W. L., High Point, Rt. 5
Canady, E. H., Elizabethtown
Canipe, J. C, Boone
Cannon, D. Boyd, Shelby
Cantrell, J. R., Boiling Springs
Carpenter, L. L., Raleigh
Carpenter, Ralph B., Fallston
Carr, W. B., Mooresville, 201 West
Center Ave.
Carrick, J. L., Colonial Beach, Va.
Carter, J. E., Hildebran, Box 24
Carter, J. R., Conway, S. C.
Cash, A. B., Murphy
Cashwell, T. L., Gastonia, 321 South
Columbia St.
Catlett, N. A., Cary, Rt. 1
Caudle, E. P., Winston-Salem Rt. 3
Caudle, W. S., Raleigh, Rt. 2
Caudle, Zeb A., Lenoir, Rt. 1
Caulder, G. C, Chesterfield, S. C.
Chambers, Gay, Canton, Rt. 2
Chamblee, E. C, Farmville
Chandler, L. C, Davis
Chapman, M. G., Boger City
Chapman, M. W., Fayetteville, Box
286
Chapman, N. H., Rosman
Chappel, J. D., Robbinsville
Chastain, P. H., Culberson, Rt. 2
Cheatwood, M. C, Spartanburg, S. C.
Cherry, H. E., Raleigh
Childers, W. Paul, Dover, Rt. 1
Chilton, J. W., Pilot Mountain
Church, Avery M., Winston-Salem,
1301 Forest Ave.
Christmas, T. P., Charlotte, 3747
Commonwealth Ave.
Christie, Jas. H., Waynesville, 216
Delwood Road
Clark, L. S., Mount Holly
Clanton, D. A., Kannapolis, Rt. 1
Clemmons, D. M., Selma
Clevelend, Curtis P., Newsome, Va.
Clifford, J. Roy, Wilmington, 1810
Market Street
Clifton, J. B., Greensboro, Bessemer
Branch, Rt. 6
Cline, D. F., Swannanoa
Cline, J. T., Hildebran
Cloer, Andrew, Cashiers
Cloer, G. A., Leatherman
Cloer, M. G., Alexis
Coates, P. B., Loris, S. C.
Coates, W. E., Raleigh, 615 Wills
Forest St.
Cockerham, C. C, Roaring River
Coffey, Ham, Murphy
Coggins, L. V., Semora
Cole, Edward G., Winterville
Coley, J. L., Raleigh, 614 West
North Street
Collins, Clyde, Greenville, S. C.
Collins, F. T., Forest City
Collins, Richard L., Wilson
Collins, Sampson, Mount Airy
Collins, T. D., Durham, 2505 Chapel
Hill Blvd.
Colvard, C. W., Hudson
Colvard, G. W., Hickory, Rt. 3
Condor, B. H., Hamlet, 727 Hamlet
Avenue
Cone, William B., Jr., Maysville
Connell, J. H., Concord, Rt. 1
Connell, L. V., Concord, Rt. 3
Connell, W. J., Wadesboro, Rt. 2
Connor, W. H., Central Falls
Connor, W. T., Biltmore, 28 Sayles
Road
Conrad, A. B., High Point, 225 Lind-
say Street
Conrad, M. A., Winston-Salem, Rt. 5
Cook, C. F., Hudson, Rt. 1
Cook, L. M., Toast
Cook, Otis, Casar, Rt. 1
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Cook, R. R., Cramerton
Cook, W. J., Boone, Rt. 1
Cooper, B. A., Spindale
Cooper, Clifton, Valdese Rt 1
Cooper, Thomas N., Calypso
Corbett, R. L., Marion
Corey, A., Jamesville
Corn, J. A., Asheville, Rt. 1
Corn, J. W., Mars Hill
Corn, Riley P., Asheville, Box 625
Costner, J. W., Lawndale
Cothren, Grant, Traphill
Councilman, R. L., Windsor
Covert, W. H., Pollocksville
Coward, S. H., Wilmington
Cox, G. C, Asheville, 285 Merrimon
Ave.
Cox, J. A., Thomasville, Box 345
Crandall, P. E., Charlotte, 1900
Queen's Road
Crater, R. R., Ronda
Crawford, C. E., Hobgood
Crawford, L. H., Sylva, Rt. 1
Crawford, R. L., Shelby, Rt. 3
Creech, A. R., Princeton
Creech, C S., Kenly, Rt. 2
Creech, Oscar, Ahoskie
Crews, J. A., Winston-Salem, Rt. 3
Crisman, W. T., Siloam
Crouch, John P., Valdese
Crouch, W. Perry, Asheville, First
Baptist Church
Crouse, W. M., Winston-Salem, Rt. 3
Crowder, W. P., Forest City, Rt. 2
Crump, J. E., Hudson
Culler, B. B., Boone
Culler, W. J., Rockingham
Cummins, J. W., Oxford
Curl, L. D., Burlington, Rt. 5
Currin, J. B., Roxboro
Curtis, C. M.j Rhodhiss
Dabney, Fred E., Charlotte, Rt. 4
Dalton, B. G., Black Mountain
Darnell, W. C, Mebane
Davenport, C. W., Winston-Salem,
Rt. 7
Davidson, W. W., Boiling Springs,
Rt. 4
Davis, B. L., Walstonburg
Davis, Floyd Paul, Elizabeth City,
616 W. Colonial Ave.
Davis, Henry T., Salisbury, Rt. 2
Davis, Jack, Marshall
Davis, J. P., Leaksville
Davis, J. T., Concord
Davis, Winfrey, Tabor City
Dawkins, Howard G., Hertford
Day, Cline O., Nantahala
Day, D. W., Elkin, Rt. 1
Day, Fred N., Winston- Salem
Day, Richard F., Elkin
Dean, Gibson, Hope Mills
Deaver, Cade, Laurinburg, 423
McNair Avenue
Deese, Eugene, Troutman
Deese, Tommy, Monroe, 413 Mill
Street
Denny, G. L., Grassy Creek
Denny, T. D., Nantahala
Denny, W. E., Bina
Denton, Lincoln, Connelly Springs
Devine, C. L., Concord, Rt. 3
DeWeese, R. L., Salisbury
Digh, D. W., Lexington, Rt. 6
Digh, Julius, Charlotte, Rt. 1
Dixon, J. Huber, Pleasant Garden
Dixon, L. M., Gastonia
Dixon, R. L., Huntersville
Dorsett, R. C, Siler City
Dorsey, E. Horace, Bryson City
Dosher, J. Bryan, Kelly
Dowd, George, Rocky Point, Rt. 1
Downs, P. E., Salemburg
Draughan, T. S., Crutchfield
Drum, Paul K., Cornelius
Drye, C. G, Concord
Drye, M. H., Charlotte, Rt. 6, Box
88 A
Dudhans, Bob, Flag Pond, Tenn.
Duncan, J. M., Murfreesboro
Dunning, A. H., High Point, 809
Tryon St.
Durden, C. W., Charlotte, 1620 Park-
Drive
Eagle, E. F., Salisbury, Rt. 4
Early, B. G., Cerro Gordo
Early, J. F., Henrietta
Early, Robert, Rutherfordton, Rt. 3
Early, Waldo D., Fayetteville, 1079
Southern Ave.
Earp, Ronda, Vilas
Easley, J. A., Wake Forest
Eddinger, Clyde C, Southmont
Edge, N. B., Dunn, Box 453
Edmisten, D. M., Newland
Edney, A. E., Flat Rock
Edwards, J. G, Liberty
Edwards, John T., Louisburg, Rt. 2
Edwards, Otto, Loris, S. C.
Edwards, Wilbar L., Lumberton, Rt. 4
Eggers, R. C, Zionville
Elam, W. A., Shelby
Eldreath, J. W., Jefferson
Eller, A. W., Wilkesboro, Rt. 1
Eller, J. Ben, Greensboro, 709 Ashe-
boro Street
Ellington, R. P., Graham
Elliott, E. S., Cherryville
Elliott, P. L., Boiling Springs
Elliott, W. P., Murphy, Rt. 3
Elliott, Y. C, Lincolnton
Ellis, C. J., Pembroke
Ellis, R. A., First Baptist Church
Salisbury
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Elmore, S. E., Graham
Embler, N. J., Alexander
Epley, Barney, Forest City
Erwin, Lawrence, Balfour
Erwin, T. E., Canton, Rt. 3
Evans, J. N., Jr., Wallace
Farmer, T. A., Lansing
Faulkner, Melvin, Guilford College
Ferguson, W. Forest, Clyde, Rt. 1
Ferguson, Ralph, Mount Airy
Fields, Luby W, Norwood
Finger, John, Waynesville, Rt. 2
Finlator, W. W., Weldon
Fisher, Ben C, Nashville
Fisher, V. C, Alexander, Rt. 1
Fleming, L. A., Mount Airy
Fletcher, Phillip D., Granite Falls
Floyd, C. M., High Point
Flowe, T. B., Thomasville
Flynn, Thos. B., Winston- Salem
Fogleman, T. W., Kannapolis, Rt. 1
Folds, J. B., Aulander
Ford, Howard J., Wilkesboro
Forester, Fred, Drexel
Foster, A. J., Boomer
Foster, R. C, Leaksville
Fowler, Carroll, Asheville, Box 233
Fox, J. W., Lenoir, Rt. 2
Fox, Zollie W., Lenoir
Francis, W. C, Harrellsville
Frazier, A. D., Red Oak
Freeman, E. W., Selma
Freeman, John, Judson
Freeman, L. E. M., Raleigh, Rt. 3
Freeman, Tom M., Selma, Rt. 1
Freeman, Z. Miller, Rutherfordton,
Rt. 2
Frost, G. A., North Wilkesboro
Frye, Robert, Drexel
Fryer, T. W., New Bern, 40 Johnson
Street
Fulk, A. Lincoln, Washington
Fuller, John P., Greensboro, 1812
Freeman Mill Road
Funderburk, O. W., Paw Creek
Funderburk, J. F., Roxboro, Rt. 2
Funderburk, Wade E., Pageland, S.
C, Rt. 2
Gaddis, Robert L., Hazelwood
Gaddy, J. F., Whiteville, Rt. 3
Gaines, Louis S., Fayetteville, First
Baptist Church
Gambill, Arthur, Moxley
Gamble, Harry Y., Statesville
Gamble, John, Raleigh
Gantt, P. C, Ramseur
Gardner, E. N., Henderson
Gardner, R. F., Kannapolis, 300 York
Street
Gardner, W. M., Windom
Garland, Roy, Robbinsville
Garrett, F. B., Hayesville
Garver, Carme, East Gastonia
Gauldin, H. P., Greensboro, Rt. 5
Gentry, W. F., Nashville, Rt. 1
George, Esiah, Whittier
Gibbs, J. M., Parkton
Gibbs, R. S., Parkton
Gibson, A. F., Siler City
Gibson, E. M., Luck
Gibson, J. B., Leicester
Gillespie, C. L., Smithfield
Gillespie, J. C, Reidsville, 419 Lind-
say St.
Gilley, J. A., Jonesville
Glass, G. H., Spruce Pine
Glosson, Qyde W., Kernersville
Glosson, S. C, Moncure, Rt. 1
Godwin, L. E., Selma, Rt. 1
Good, Homer L., Stony Point
Goode, W. E., Scotland Neck
Goodman, Spencer H., Oval
Goodman, S. R., Elizabethtown, Rt. 2
Goodwin, H. F., Concord, 194 Acad-
emy Street
Gordon, R. R., Pittsboro
Gore, E. O., Kings Mountain, Rt. 2
Gore, Mack, Conway, S. C.
Gosnell, Ray, Troy
Graham, George M., Olivia
Grainger, D. M., Loris, S. C, Rt. 3
Grant, D. B., Cheraw, S. C, Rt. 2
Graybeal, S. S., Creston
Greene, Harvey, Whaley
Greene, C. H., Canton
Greene, Edward W., Henderson,
Rt. 3, Box 289
Green, C. O., Cary
Green, I. H., Balfour
Green, Job, Blairsville, Ga., Rt. 3
Green, Levi, Deep Gap
Green, N. M., Boone
Green, Oliver B., Salisbury, Rt. 1
Green, Roscoe, Deep Gap
Green, R. T., Wake Forest
Green, Tipton, Boone
Green, V. W., Pineola
Greer, J. W., Granite Falls
Gresham, N. E., Beulaville
Grice, J. B., Asheville, 16 Vance
Crescent
Griffin, George J., Zebulon
Griffin, J. D., Concord
Griffin, Luke W., Marshall, Rt. 3
Griffin, N. H., Marshall, Rt. 3
Griffith, Charles, Columbus
Grigg, W. R., Winston-Salem, 8 Park
Blvd.
Griswald, Lewis, Rutherfordton, Rt. 3
Groce, J. H., Cana, Rt. 1, Box 16
Guffie, Raleigh, Franklin, Rt. 1
Guthrie, W. B., Columbia
Guy, T. Sloan, Gatesville
Guy, Troy, Whaley
240
N. C. Baptist State Convention
Gwaltney, J. C, Kannapolis, Box 518
Hagaman, Lawrence, Beech Creek
Haga, K. L., Newland
Hagler, Ottis J., Swannanoa
Hagler, R. M., Caroleen
Hall, E. J., Burnsville, Rt. 2
Hall, H. M., Benson, Rt. 2
Hall, L. C, Mayodan
Hall, J. Howard, Clyde, Rt. 1
Hall, J. Howard, Mount Airy, Rt. 2
Hall, M. F., Marion
Hall, R. F., Lillington
Hall, R. J., Bladenboro
Hallman, John A., Lattimore
Hamby, Grady A., Boone, Route 2,
Box 152
Hamby, R. P., Swannanoa
Hammett, H. G., Waynesville
Hammonds, S. A., Lumberton, Rt. 2
Hancock, Ernest D., Star
Hancock, W. F., Hemp
Hand, Harry C, Whitakers
Hardaway, J. L., Greenville, S. C.
Hardin, E. F., Morganton, 500 S.
Green Street
Hardin, N. S., Shelby
Hardwick, O. E., Conway, S. C.
Harrell, H. F., Lattimore
Harrelson, A. D., Loris, S. C.
Harrington, Ray W., Greensboro,
509 Delancey Street
Harrington, W. B., Williamston
Harris, Carl V., Wake Forest
Harris, E. M., Aberdeen
Harris, E. R., Virgilina, Va.
Harris, Horace, Lenoir
Harris, J. P., Bethel
Harris, L. B., Mooresboro, Rt. 1
Harris, M. L., Valdese
Harris, Reid R., Hemp
Hart, M. D., Husk
Hartman, O. M., Winston-Salem,
Rt. 2
Hartsell, Bruce V., Franklinton
Hartsell, Lee, Stanfield
Haskett, W. E., Tuckaseigee
Hastings, M. L., Drexel
Hatley, S. A., Albemarle, Rt. 4
Hathcock, A. A., Concord, Rt. 2
Hawkins, W. L., Gastonia, 405 East
Second Ave.
Hawks, Hubert, Mount Airy
Hayes, A. B., Hays
Hayes, J. E., North Wilkesboro
Hayes, Jas. M., Winston-Salem, 812
Overbrook Ave.
Hayes, Mello, Pickens, S. C, Rt. 1
Hayes, W. Noah, North Wilkesboro
Haynes, Grady J., Concord, 205
Young Street
Haynie, F. W., Asheville, 842 Hay-
wood Road
Hearne, T. W., Rockingham
Heath, R. E., Asheboro, Rt. 1
Heaton, Geo. D., Charlotte, 1900
Queens Road
Hedden, W. A., Murphy
Hedgepeth, G. C., Morehead City
Hedgepeth, I. P., Lumberton
Helms, V. T., Monroe, Box 409
Hemphill, Carl, Morganton, Rt. 2
Hemphill, F. D., Durham, 404 Third
Avenue
Henderson, C. H., Hickory, Rt. 1
Henderson, T. S., Barnardsville
Hendricks, Garland A., Apex, Rt. 3
Hendrix, Raymond, Boone
Henline, J. H., Qarissa
Henry, B. G., Tryon
Hensley, B. S., Sylva, Rt. 1
Hensley, Ralph R., Candler, Rt. 1
Herring, C. P., Fairmont
Herring, Owen F., Durham, 702
Buchanan Boulevard
Herring, Ralph A., Winston-Salem,
912, Linwood Ave.
Hester, B. B., Orrum
Hester, C. R., St. Pauls
Hester, Paul G., Wake Forest, Rt. 3
Heyman, C. M., Jr., Hendersonville
Hiatt, H. B., Kannapolis, 201 Buick
Avenue
Hickman, T. O., Williamston
Hicks, A. M., Winston-Salem, Rt. 5
Hicks, E. B., Harmony
Hicks, Edley, Shelby, Rt. 4
Hicks, J. T., Asheville, 7 Factory
Hill
Hicks, P. A., Belmont
Hicks, Randolph D., Germanton
Hight, L. J., Greensboro, 1406 Tucker
Street
Hill, J. C, China Grove, Rt. 2
Hill, J. H., Salisbury, 124 Klumac
Street
Hill, W. C, Gastonia
Hill, W. E., Matthews
Hill, Walter, Monroe
Hilliard, Otho, Red Springs
Hilton, O. W., Isabella, Tenn.
Hines, H. B., Oriental
Hinson, J. W., Jonesville
Hinson, Roy L., Lincolnton, 209
Grove Street
Hinton, C. R., Albemarle
Hocutt, George L., Charlotte, 609 E.
36th Street
Hocutt, H. M., Biltmore
Hodge, C. S., Greensboro, First Bap-
tist Church
Hodge, D. D., Mount Airy
Hodge, D. W., Nebo, Rt. 1
Hodges, E. C, Hendrix
Hodges, Ira, Banner Elk
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Hodges, J. L., New Bern
Hoffman, J. E., Lawndale, Rt. 3
Hoffman, W. Arthur, Gastonia, 1326
W. Franklin Ave.
Holbert, Floyd, Tryon
Holcomb, George, Rosman
Holden, N. E., Franklin, Rt. 3
Holder, Gurney, Mount Airy
Holland, C. C., Hickory
Hollar, Floyd, Kings Mountain
Hollifield, Waits, Marion, Rt. 2
Holloway, J. F., Lillington
Holmes, W. B., Albemarle
Holt, L. D., Bethel
Holt, Robert L., Morganton, 500 S.
Green Street
Hooker, P. H., Old Fort, Tenn.
Hooper, D. C.. Norton
Hopkins, Frank B., Bakersville
Hopkins, Fred H., Norwood
Hopkins, J. S., High Point, 324
Woodrow Avenue
Hopkins, W. B., China Grove
Hornbuckle, Clifford, Cherokee
Home, C. B., Roseboro, Rt. 1
Hornsby, C. H., Clinton
Hovis, R. W., Longhurst
Howard, A. T., Landrum, S. C, Rt. 1
Howard, Charles B., Buie's Creek
Howell. A. P., White Top, Va.
Howerton, R. T., Raleigh
Hoyle, J. E., Winterville
Hudson, C. F., Durham, Box 1581
Hudson, E. V., Cramerton
Hudson, S. F.j Lillington
Huffman, J. G., Parsonville
Huffman, J. E., Lawndale, Rt. 3
Huggins, Hubert, Dallas
Hughes, Jesse, Burnsville
Hughes, J. G., Valley
Hughes, R. L., Youngsville
Hughston, John W., Jr., Belmont
Huneycutt, C. C, Stanfield
Huneycutt, R. N., Salisbury, Rt. 4
Hunt, Howard T., Lexington, Rt. 6
Hunt, T. R., Lenoir, Rt. 3
Huntley, David, Fairview
Huntley, R. K., Rutherfordton, Rt. 1
Huntley, S. F., Hendersonville, Rt. 1
Huntley, W. C, Asheville, Rt. 4
Hutchins, H. W., Mocksville, Rt. 2
Hutchins, W. Wilbur, Raleigh
Hutchinson, Phillip, Greensboro,
Rt. 2
Hux, M. L., Fuquay Springs
Hyatt, J. L., Whittier, Route 1
Icard, A. W., Wake Forest
Isenhour, J. A., Hiddenite
Ivester, Seth, Lawndale
Jackson, I. B., Rutherfordton
Jackson, R. R., High Point, 918 Red-
ding St.
Jackson, J. W., Biltmore, 171 On-
tario St.
Jacobs, L. W., Pembroke
Jamerson, A. Z., Burnsville, Rt. 1
James, Lee A., Boiling Springs
James, Wade H., Greensboro, 1504 —
16th St.
Jenkins, J. L., Boiling Springs
Jenkins, J. L., Fairview
Jenkins, P. G., Tuckaseigee
Johnson, C. R., Fayetteville, 115
Burns St.
Johnson, E. N., Fair Bluff
Johnson, Guy, Boiling Springs
Johnson, J. Jeter, Cherokee
Johnson, J. H., Bryson City
Johnson, J. McRay, Durham, 2530
Rochelle St.
Johnson, J. S., Fayetteville, Rt. 5
Johnson, J. Samuel, Durham
Johnson, Lee, Mount Pleasant
Johnson, Lester C, Hays
Johnson, L. L., Magnolia
Johnson, M. M., Spring Hope
Johnson, T. C, Kinston
Johnson, T. F., Bolivia, Box 286
lohnson, W. I., Elizabeth City, Box
286
lohnson, Walt N., Salisbury
Johnson, W. O., Taylorsville, Rt. 2
Johnson, W. O., St. Pauls
Jollay, Charles, Durham, Rt. 4
Jones, Broadus E., Raleigh
Jones, Dayton N., Heaton
Jones, Forest, La Grange
Jones, H. B., Boger City
Jones, H. E., Buie's Creek
Jones, J. Clarence, Newell
Jones, J. L., Murfreesboro
Jones, Troy E., Red Springs
Jones, W. H., Saluda
Jones, W. J., Salemburg
Jones, W. S., Shelby, Rt. 4
Jones, W. W., Kannapolis, 312 West
Avenue
Jordan, E. G., City View, Winston-
Salem
Jordan, L. R., Creedmoor
Journey, Fred, Mount Airy
Joyce, J. A., Sandy Ridge, Rt. 1
Joyner, Edward B., Concord, Rt. 1
Joyner, N. S., Waxhaw, Rt. 2
Justice, Franklin, East Marion
Justice, H. H., Marion
Kanipe, L. M., Boiling Springs, Box
34
Keaton, T. C, Winston-Salem, 2522
Greenway Court
Keller, O. A., Sanford, R. F. D.
Keller, Roy D., Spruce Pine
Kendall, M. H., Mars Hill
Kendrick, Olin, Forest City, Rt. 2
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N. C. Baptist State Convention
Kerley, I. E., Greensboro, 1704
Florida St.
Kerstein, M. L., Biltmore, 32 Sayles
Road
Kidd, J. C, Bennett
Kilpatrick, J. B., Balsam Grove
Kilstrom, E. A., Hendersonville,
Rt. 4
Kincheloe, J. W., Rocky Mount
Kincheloe, J. W., Jr., North Wilkes-
boro
King, Bascom K., Steeds
King, Ernest, Vanceboro
King, R. Von, Statesville, Box 1222
Kinnett, A. D., Burlington
Kirk, J. E., Lewisville
Kiser, A. M., Waco
Kiser, W. R., Concord, Rt. 1
Kizer, M. A., Weaverville
Kizer, R. L., Thomasville
Knight, Frank, Shulls Mills
Knight, I. Eugene, Morven
Knight, John H., Mebane
Knight, Ralph W, Durham
Knight, W. A., Marshville
Kuykendall, Edd E., Hendersonville
Lackey, J. H., Alamance
Lail, James, Taylorsville
Lake, J. Tilman, Wadesboro, Box 125
Lamb, S. N., Whiteville
Lambe, B. C, Danville, Va., Rt. 4
Lambert, H. Fletcher, Statesville,
Rt. 6
Lambert, Jess, Smokemont
Lamm, Albert S., Wake Forest, Rt. 2
Lamm, S. L., Avondale
Laney, W. C, Brookford
Lanier, J. E., Winton
Lanier, R. C., Rocky Mount, 113 West
Ridge Street
Lankford, Elijah, Greensboro, 2214
Poplar Street
Lanter, G. G.,_ Reidsville, Box 224
Larkins, Dennis M., Knightdale
Laughlin, C. F., Cedar Falls
Lawing, E. R., Marion
Lawrence, T. S., Winston-Salem, 226
Academy Street
Lawton, W. W., Jr., Charlotte, 3518
Commonwealth Ave.
Lea, Lester, Old Fort, Tenn.
Leatherwood, F. H., Waynesville,
Box 358
Ledford, Blaine, Brasstown
Ledford, Floyd, Bakersville
Lee, R. Cole, Greensboro, Rt. 2, Box
116
Leftwich, C. L., Mount Airy
Lennon, J. T., Swan Quarter
Leonard, W. M., Bennett, Rt. 2
Lewis, G. Carl, Chadbourn
Lewis, M. L., Morganton, Rt. 4
Lindsey, E. B., Bryson City
Lindsey, Garfield, Luck
Lindsey, R. F., Morehead City
Liner, G. T., Raleigh, 618 West
Cabarrus Street
Link, John R., Apex
Link, Wm. C, Jr., Wingate
Lipe, G. F., Durham
Lister, W. F., Rutherfordton
Little, I. B., Monroe, Rt. 2
Little, James B., Marshville
Littleton, B. B., Lincolnton
Lloyd, Richard, Jackson
Lloyd, R. C, Statesville
Lockamy, E. P., Barnesville
Lockee, A. A., Icard
Locklear, C. E., Pembroke
London, J. Troy, Reidsville, Rt. 5
Long, E. A., Germanton
Long, O. S., Casar
Long, Samuel, Monroe, Rt. 2
Loudermilk, W. A., Gastonia
Love, Hoyle, Newton, Rt. 2
Lovingood, C. F., Grandview
Lovingood, R. P., Marble
Lowder, D. H., Salisbury, 810 South
Church Street
Lowder, H. C, Rocky Mount, 708
Arlington Street
Loy, J. W., Jr., Lewisville, Rt. 3
Luckadee, W. L., Mooresboro, Rt. 1
Lucas, J. R., Aberdeen
Luck, W. S., North Wilkesboro
Ludlum, Lewis E., Carolina Beach
Luffman, J. H., Ronda
Luffman, T. M., Jonesville
Luffman, W. B., North Wilkesboro,
Rt. 2
Lunsford, Drew, Andrews
Lunsford, Reid, Asheville, Rt. 2
Lunsford, T. O., Asheville
Lynch, W. L., Mars Hill
McAuley, S. F., Brevard
McCann, Levi, Roaring River
McCall, A. C, Cullowhee
McCall, Ernest, Penrose
McCall, S. B., Rt. 1, Brevard
McCluney, J. L., Henrietta
McClure, L. A., Murphy, Rt. 2
McCready, J. D., Morganton,
105 South King Street
McCrimmon, John H., Henderson,
Box 354
McDaniel, E. L., Mooresboro
McElrath, Hugh T., Statesville
McFarland, R. A., Gaffney, S. C.
McGee, A. L., High Point, Rt. 2
McGee, W. K., Thomasville
McGinnis, H. M., Wadesboro,
Box 206
McGinnis, O. L., Asheville, Box 1002
McGinnis, S. T., Sylva
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243
McGuire, J. W., Brevard, Rt. 2
Mclntyre, Donald, Fayetteville, Rt. 5
McKinney, Carl, Marion
McKnight, C. H., Independence, Va.
McLeod, J. A., Mars Hill
McLeod, Spencer, Cranberry
McMahan, F. L., Marion
McMahan, P. L., Swannanoa
McMahan, W. F., Marion
McManus, O. W., Gibson
McMillan, J. A., Thomasville
McSwain, W. L., Glen Alpine, Box 18
Mace, H. H., Hendersonville, Rt. 4
Mace, R. G., Catawba, Rt. 2
Mack, Frank, Topton
Mahaffey, Roy, Gastonia, 104 Dean
Street
Maness, B. L., Carthage, Rt. 1
Mangum, O. R., Lenoir
Mann, H. H., Canton, Rt. 1
Manuel, J. F., Germanton, Rt. 2
Manuel, M. F., Winston- Salem,
618 West 16th St.
Marchman, J. F., Franklin
Marler, J. D., Lowell
Marlow, H. K., Tabor City
Marshall, F. H., Durham,
313 Alexander Ave.
Marshburn, R. F., Salemburg
Martin, G. A., Mamie
Masteller, H. K., Canton
Matheny, C. C, Forest City
Matheny, J. J., Blowing Rock, Rt. 1
Matthews, Luther J., Winston-Salem,
Rt. 5
Mauney, J. Lloyd, Charlotte,
2805 Tuckaseigee Road
Maxwell, F. C, Erwin
Mayberry, R. F., Rhodhiss
Maynor, C. H., Red Springs, Rt. 2
Maynor, Dawley, Pembroke
Maynor, Roy, Pembroke, Rt. 3
Medlin, D. J., Bryson City
Mehaffey, R. R., Leicester, Rt. 1
Meigs, J. C, Pageland, S. C.
Melton, N. A., Columbus
Melton, R. G., Forest City, Rt. 2
Melton, Robert G., Rockingham
Memory, J. I., Randleman
Messer, Homer, Valdese, Rt. 1
Miller, Coy R., Salisbury, Rt. 4
Miller, Doyle, Canton, Rt. 1
Miller, D. C, Hays
Miller, Grant, Jr., Granite Falls, Rt. 2
Miller, Herbert, Sunbury
Miller, H. O., High Point,
2333 Edgewood
Miller, Joseph, Butler, Tenn.
Miller, Lawrence A., Boiling Springs
Miller, Lee, Purlear
Miller, Ralph A., North Wilkesboro,
Rt. 1, Box 192
Mills, G. T., Apex, Rt 3
Millsaps, J. C, Bushnell
Mihton, B. L., Buck
Minton, Grady, Vilas
Mintz, M. L., Shallotte
Mintz, S. I., Leland
Mitchell, B. A., Kernersville, Rt. 1
Mixon, F. O., Raleigh, 809 Person
Street
Monk, W. R., Roxboro
Moore, Eugene, Cove Creek
Moore, Frank R., Ellerbe
Moore, W. H., Raleigh
Moose, J. D., Charlotte, 120 South
Goff Street
Morgan, Frank W., Mars Hill, Rt. 1
Morgan, S. Lewis, Jr., Dunn
Morris, B. E., Durham, 1010 Broad
Street
Morris, L. J., Raleigh,
2804 Anderson Drive
Morris, Roy A., Sanford,
308 North Avenue
Morrisett, Stephen, Elkin
Moss, W. R., Lenoir, Rt. 3
Mott, Marshall L., Winston-Salem,
Ardmore Baptist Church
Mull, J. O., Vale, Rt. 3
Mumford, H. S., Matthews
Munn, Lonnie D., Badin
Murray, J. Gray, Cary
Murray, J. T., Winston-Salem,
Chatham Heights
Mustain, A. P., Colerain, Rt. 1
Myers, Donald G., Mount Olive
Myrick, C. W., Fayetteville
Nail, L. A., Burlington,
Williamson Avenue
Nash, H. E., Concord
Neilson, J. A., Thomasville
Newmans, A. S., Jonesville
Newton, Dewey E., Shelby, Rt. 1
Newton, I. T., Whiteville
Newton, T. L., Raleigh, Rt. 3
Nicols, H. L., Durham, Rt. 4
Nix, A. T-, Rutherfordton
Nix, J. 6., Satolah, Ga.
Nix, Ralph, Edneyville
Norman, E. C, East Bend
Norris, C. H., Wake Forest
Nuckles, R. O., Colfax, Rt. 1
Oates, C. M., Pomona
Oldham, S. W., Star
Olive, Eugene, Wake Forest
Orr, F. M., Etowah
Orr, Oliver, Topoca
Osborne, Irdel, Cricket
Osborne, Mark R., Zebulon
Osteen, J. E., Hendersonville, Rt. 3
Ostwalt, R. B., Charlotte,
2016 N. Tryon St., Rt. 5
Otey, C. E., Mount Airy
244
N. C. Baptist State Convention
Ousley, Carl L., Siler City
Overby, D. W., Reidsville,
83 Lawsonville Street
Owen, J. C, Saluda
Owen, J. R., Asheville,
307 S. French Broad Ave.
Owen, Ransey, Argura
Owle, DeWitt, Bryson City
Owle, William, Cherokee
Oxendine, C. F., Lumberton
Padgett, Wilson W., Wake Forest
Page, W. M., Fuquay Springs
Painter, Roby L., Balm
Palmer, Jack, Murphy
Pardue, Lloyd J., Elkin
Pardue, R. J., Jonesville
Parham, E. T., Charlotte,
2120 Floral Avenue
Parham, Otto, Balfour
Parker, B. H., Bostic, Rt. 1
Parker, C. C, Marion, Rt. 1
Parker, C. E., Winston- Salem,
598 Glade Street
Parker, E. L., Goldsboro,
Rt. 1, Box 235
Parks, Pervis C, Cycle
Parrish, A. D., Zebulon, Rt. 2
Parrish, B. B., Ash
Parris, Robert, Sylva, Rt. 1
Parris, T. H., Clyde
Parsons, Joe, Spindale
Pate, E. W., Wilmington
Pate, R. A., Bostic
Pate, W. C, Marion, Rt. 2
Paul, E. A., Lumberton, Rt. 5
Payne, W. C, Blowing Rock
Peacock, A. T., Marion, S. C.
Peacock, C. B., Castalia
Peake, Avery E., Canton, Rt. 2
Pearce, J. Winston, Durham,
911 West Markham Avenue
Pearson, William, Morganton
Peek, Wayne, West Asheville
Peeler, B. F., Taylorsville
Pegg, Fred W., Weaverville, Rt. 2
Pegram, M. A., Zebulon, Rt. 2
Pennell, Howard, Lenoir
Perry, Edwin F., Fayetteville,
219 Hull Road
Pettit, W. E., Forest City
Phelps, W. G., Wilmington
Phillips, C. E., Gastonia, Box 324
Phillips, Harvey, Cricket
Phillips, Lee A., Plymouth
Phillips, N. B., East Flat Rock,
Box 175
Phillips, Ralph, Winston-Salem, Rt. 3
Pickler, J. M., Wingate
Pierce, C. R., Durham, Rt. 5
Pinnix, Lucius C, Jacksonville
Pipes, J. C, Asheville, Rt. 1
Pipes, W. C, Franklin, Rt. 4
Pitt, Alvin, Wake Forest
Plemmons, E. V., Luck
Poe, W. D., Oxford
Poindexter, W. H., Gaffney, S. C.
Poole, Charles J., Pores Knob
Pool, W. H., Carrboro
Poston, Eugene E., Wake Forest
Potts, E. H., Elizabeth City
Powell, E. M., Henderson
Powers, Arthur L., Lansing
Powers, J. L., Durham, Rt. 3
Powers, J. L., Elkin
Preslar, Clyde, Marshville, Rt. 3
Price, Bruce H., Asheboro
Price, Gordon L., Roanoke Rapids
Price, John B., Ellenboro, Rt. 1
Price, J. Louis, Hickory, 41st Street
Price, W. S., Brevard
Prince, C. C, Lewiston
Prince, G. Clyde, Loris, S. C.
Propst, C. W., Charlotte, Rt. 4
Putnam, D. F., Shelby
Quick, H. A., Candler, Rt. 1
Rainey, L. J., Grover
Rasberry, R. J., Hallsboro
Ray, Ben Lee, Blowing Rock
Ray, Edd, Ivy, Rt. 1
Ray, Elzie, Burnsville, Rt. 1
Ray, J. C, Kannapolis
Ray, Jas. W., Spindale
Ray, Roy, Lenoir, Rt. 6
Ray, Z. G., Rockfish, Box 4
Reavis, M. F., Yadkinville
Redding, L. G., Old Fort, Rt. 1
Redwine, Richard K., Mount Airy
Reece, Cecil, Marshall, Rt. 3
Reece, Cleveland, Brevard
Reece, D. G., Jonesville
Reece, Paul, Drexel, Box 102
Reed, Frank, Highland
Reed, W. C, Kinston
Reep, Clyde J., Lincolnton
Reese, A. V., Hendersonville
Reid, C. B., New London
Renegar, Elma, Mount Airy
Renegar, G. D., Harmony, Rt. 2
Rhymer, R. H., Alexander, Rt. 1
Rhyne, C. A., Salisbury,
South Main Street
Rhyne, M. P., Dallas
Rhyne, S. A., Lumberton, Box 66
Rice, Henry, Marshall, Rt. 3
Richards, J. T., Rhodhiss
Riddle, S. L., Greensboro, 2218
Shober St.
Riggan, J. W., Macon, Rt. 2
Riggins, Reece D., Derita
Riggs, O. L., Durham, Grace Road
Rimmer, W. W., Lincolnton
Roach, E. C, Kannapolis,
310 Locust Street
Roach, J. F., Norlina
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Roark, Keen C, Creston
Robbins, J. Rector, Rutherfordton,
Rt. 1
Robbins, Ronda E., Greenville, S. C.
Robbins, Woodrow W., Bolivia
Roberson, E. A., Kernersville, Rt. 1
Roberts, E. L., Black Creek
Roberts, F. C, Charlotte,
800 Norris Avenue
Roberts, Lawrence, Shelby, Rt. 5
Roberts, W. A., China Grove
Robertson, J. P., Gilreath
Robertson, V. E., Fort Mills, S. C.
Robinson, D. J., New London
Robinson, Frank, Raleigh,
611 West Peace Street
Robinson, W. E., St. Paul's
Rogers, B. N., Biltmore,
24 Ridgecrest Street
Rogers, C. F., Biltmore,
227 Summit Street
Rogers, H. R., Canton, Rt. 1
Rogers, H. P., Mars Hill
Rogers, W. S., Robbinsville
Rollins, B. F., Elkin
Ross, M. J., Tryon
Ross, M. L., Concord
Rotan, Z. W., Concord, Rt. 2
Royal, C. N., Durham,
Angier Avenue Baptist Church
Royal, F. M., Greenville, S. C.
Royal, Howard, Traphill
Royall, Peyton, Wake Forest
Royster, G. L., Cooleemee
Ruff, Wade, Rutherfordton
Rufnn, C. E., Broadway
Russell, D. D., Clyde, Rt. 1
Russell, Ernest P., Wake Forest,
Box 608
Russell, W. G., Mooresville
Russell, W. J, Albemarle, Rt. 1
Ruth, W. D., Asheville,
31 Parkman Avenue
Salmon, Thomas, Jefferson
Saris, Lester, Franklin, Rt. 2
Sargeant, A. G., Kings Mountain
Sasser, Lonnie, Murfreesboro
Sasser, T. L., Greensboro,
611 5 th Avenue
Satterfield, R. H., Raleigh,
22 Shepherd Street
Sawyer, J. E., Sanford
Scott, M. F., Jr., Durham,
606 South Alston Ave.
Scott, T. D., Mount Airy
Scott, W. L., Durham,
1013 Hale Street
Scofield, Fon H., Jr., Wake Forest,
Rt. 2
Sears, V. W., Rural Hall
Seigler, O. M., Hendersonville
Sellers, J. F., White Plains
Sessoms, J. B., Magnolia
Settlemyre, G. F., Central Falls
Sexton, E. C, Rocky Mount, Rt. 1
Sexton, E. Z., Lansing
Seymour, J. A., Albemarle
Seymour, T. Y., Jonesboro
Schum, H. S., Asheville, Rt. 4,
Ben Lippen School
Shearin, R. C, Hickory
Shelton, Bernie, Mount Airy
Shelton, David K., Jacksonville,
Box 406
Shepherd, Grady, Swiss
Sheppard, Lee C, Raleigh,
608 Rosemont
Sherwood, Jas. C, Sherwood
Shoe, E. C, Taylorsville
Shoemaker, A. Z., Stokesdale
Shope, B. F., Yellow Creek
Shore, Howard, Boone
Shore, J. C, Reidsville, Rt. 4
Shore, R. H., Blowing Rock, Rt. 1
Short, R. G., Hickory
Shuford, Jess N., Hendersonville,
Rt. 1
Shuford, S. W., Hamrick
Shumate, J. R., Sugar Grove, Va.
Sides, H. L., Maiden
Silvers, J. S., Lenoir, Rt. 4
Simmons, C A., Mount Airy, Rt. 2
Simmons, C. W., Jonesville
Simmons, W. V., Ash
Simms, Albert E., Littleton, Rt. 1
Simpson, John H., Concord, Rt. 2
Simms, E. T., Winston-Salem,
143 South Green Street
Singletarv, G. M., Cerro Gordo
Sisk, J. T., Charlotte, Rt. 7
Slagle, T. A., Almond
Sledge, W. C, Lowell
Smart, D. M., Forest City
Smart, John, Connelly Springs
Smith, A. J., Goldsboro
Smith, Burl, Jefferson
Smith, D. S., Canton, Rt. 2
Smith, Douglass, Pageland, S. C.
Box 187
Smith, Ernest M., McAdenville
Smith, Henry H., Deep Gap
Smith, J. A., Ash
Smith, J. D., Mount Holly
Smith, Jas. H., Greensboro,
1307 Summit Ave.
Smith, J. M., Rockingham
Smith, L. P., Andrews
Smith, M. D., Haw River, Box 311
Smith, M. L., Asheville, Rt. 2
Smith, R. L., High Point,
' 613 Woodbury Street
Smith, Richard, Draper
Smith, W. R., Greensboro
Smith, W. T., Bryson City, Rt. 1
246
N. C. Baptist State Convention
Smith, W. T., Danville, Va., Rt. 4
Snipes, A. R., High Point,
123 Bragg Street
Snipes, Luther E., Granite Falls, Rt. 2
Snow, Brady, Mount Airy, Rt. 3
Snow, J. A., Stanley
Soles, A. R., Tabor City
Soots, L. P., Goldston
Sorrells, Lester, Franklin
Sorrells, William L., Waynesville,
Rt. 1
Southers, J. H., Pisgah Forest
Southern, W. E., Winston-Salem
Sparks, L. E., Moxley
Spivey, E. L., Charlotte,
220 W. Kingston Ave.
Sprinkle, A. P., Asheville, Rt. 4
Sprinkle, E. F., Marshall, Rt. 1
Sprinkle, W. B., Morganton,
225 Hogan Street
Stafford, I. K., Buie's Creek
Stair, Geo. R., Enfield
Staley, T. E., Albemarle, Rt. 1
Stallings, T. C, Concord
Stallings, M. W, Gastonia
Stanberry, J. S., Hayesville
Stanberry, Thomas, Beech Creek
Standi, J. N., Rocky Mount, Rt. 1
Stancil, R. T., Garner
Stancil, W. D., Kenly, Rt. 2
Stanfield, C. H., Burlington, Rt. 2
Stankwytch, R. A., Lumberton, Rt. 4
Stanley, J. H., Wilmington,
Box 1661
Starnes, J. N., Gastonia
Starnes, Nane, Asheville,
29 Eola Street
Stegall, J. F., Jonesboro
Steen, T. Harold, Concord, Rt. 2
Stephens, A. P., Burlington
Stephens, G. Van, Warsaw
Stephens, W. R., Elizabeth City,
704 Hunter St.
Stephenson, W. A., Charlotte,
1922 Rozelle Ferry Road
Stevenson, J. S., Pores Knob
Stevens, Chas. E., Mount Gilead
Stevens, Chas. H., Winston-Salem,
432 S. Broad St.
Stevens, N. L., Waynesville, Rt. 1
Stewart, E. R., Windsor, Rt. 2
Stiles, Fred, Murphy, Rt. 2, Box 180
Stimsou, J. F., Southern Pines
Stinson, Clyde P., Goldston
Stoudemire, A. T., Cleveland
Street, J. L., Nebo
Strickland, B. M., Forest City, Rt. 1
Strickland, C. M., Greensboro,
1111 Walnut Street
Strickland, H. S., Wilmington, Rt. 1
Strickland, M. W., Tabor City
Strickland, R. W., Whiteville, Rt. 2
Stroupe, S. M., Granite Falls
Stroup, H. M., Denton
Stroup, S. A., Granite Falls
Suel, Woody, Spruce Pine
Sullivan, C. E., Woodsdale
Sullivan, E. F., Hickory, Rt. 2
Sullivan, R. C, Charlotte,
2904 Morson Ave.
Summerlin, J. O., Marshall, Box 484
Summers, E. S., Concord,
49 North Spring St.
Suttle, J. W., Shelby
Sutzer, Fred, Milton
Swain, D. G, Jonesville
Swett, T. M., Rowland, Rt. 1
Swicegood, M. C, Clemmons
Swiney, G. M., Burlington
Swinson, A. J., High Point, Box 402
Swinson, J. E., Hanes
Swinson, J. T., High Point, Rt. 4
Tarlton, W. V., Concord, 342 Kerr St.
Taylor, A. K., Independence, Va.
Taylor, B. R., Fayetteville
Taylor, C. L., Albemarle
Taylor, J. Ned, Bessemer City
Taylor, R. J., Charlotte, Rt. 8,
Box 330
Teague, C. W., Wendell
Teague, E. N., Fayetteville,
1102 Hillsboro Street
Teague, E. R., Durham, Route 4
Teague, G. C, Taylorsville, Rt. 2
Teague, Jarvis W., Cove Creek
Teague, J. U., Powellsville
Teague, N. C, Lexington, Rt. 3
Teel, Z. B., Durham, 2317 East Main
Street
Temple, D. L., Winston-Salem, Rt. 3
Thomas, LeRoy A., Weaverville,
Rt. 1
Thomason, B. W., Brevard
Thompson, Coy L., Altamahaw
Thompson, D. C, New Hope
Thornburg, Edward, Mount Airy
Tilley, G. V., Chapel Hill
Tilley, John L., Candler, Rt. 2
Todd, L. L., Bladenboro
Townsend, Carl M., Raleigh,
2004 Glenwood Avenue
Townsend, Fred, Culberson
Trammel, Chas. B., Troy
Treadaway, Walter, Wadesboro
Tribble, T. J., Burlington, Rt. 1
Triplett, Carl, Mountain City, Tenn.
Trueblood, C. H., Seaboard
Truett, James L., Andrews
Truett, W. T., Culberson
Tucker, George A., Greensboro, Rt. 1
Turner, B. S., Winston-Salem, Rt. 7
Turner, E. W., Mocksville, Rt. 3
Turner, G. S., Chalybeate Springs
Turner, James B., Laurenburg
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Turner, J. Clyde, Greensboro,
2601 West Market St.
Turner, M. M., Zebulon, Rt. 1
Turner, W. D., Winston-Salem, Rt. 2
Tyson, Joel S., Kannapolis,
703 Walter Street
Ulmer, O. S., Newton, 308 West
Seventh Street
Ulrich, E. E., Lake Waccamaw,
Box 66
Underwood, A. G., Monroe, Rt. 5
Underwood, Jarvis, Waynesville, Rt. 1
Underwood, J. L., Asheville, Rt. 3
Underwood, P. A., Pembroke
Upchurch, C. A., Raleigh,
313 E. Lane Street
Upchurch, E. C., Wake Forest
Upchurch, H. C, Cary, Rt. 1
Upton, C. R., Canton
Usry, E. G., Oxford
Vaughan, L. B., Slater, S. C.
Vaughan, R. B., Marshall, Rt. 1
Vause, Chas. B., Chimney Rock
Vehaun, W. S., Asheville
Vess, L. O., Swannanoa
Vinson, J. I., Dillard, Ga., Rt. 1
Vipperman, J. L., Dallas
Wade, J. C, Blairsville, Ga.,
Star Route
Wagner, Felix, Mount Airy
Waldrop, H. E., Shelby, 409 North
Washington St.
Walker, E. A., Clinton, Rt. 2
Walker A E. M., Tuxedo
Walker, C. W., Mooresboro, Rt. 1
Walker, J. M, Stovall
Wallace, George H., High Point,
Rt. 3
Wall, R. E, Elizabeth City
Wall, Zeno, Shelby
Walls, Fred, Fairview
Walters, H. Lloyd, Marshville,
Box 49
Walters, T. E., Ridgecrest
Walton, J. O., Wilmington,
718 South 5th St.
Walton, W. H., Salisbury, Rt. 5
Ward, W. W., Elizabethton, Tenn.
Warfford, Walter L., Carthage
Warren, Casper C, Charlotte,
First Baptist Church
Waters, A. R., Catawba
Waters, C. S., Wake Forest
Watson, E. C, Jr., Garland
Watson, J. N., Black Mountain
Watson, T. D., Bryson City
Watts, A. E., Taylorsville, Rt. 2
Watts, J. N., Mars Hill, Rt. 1
Watts, S. H., Stanley
Watts, S. I., Boomer
Wayland, John T., Durham,
1105 Knott Street
Weatherman, John, State Road
Weaver, J. M., Buie's Creek
Weaver, R. H., Valdese
Weeks, Howard L., Reidsville
Welch, C. C, Glenville
Welch, William, Cherokee
Wells, E. L., Edenton
Wesson, D. C, Old Fort
West, Guy, Alexander, Rt. 1
West, R. L., Sparta.
West, R. W., Andrews, Rt. 1
West, W. F., Roxboro
Weston, W. A., Benson, Rt. 2
Wheeler, C. C, Merry Oaks
Whisenhunt, Eph, Clayton
Whisnant, J. D., Raeford
White, E. P., Rutherfordton, Rt. 1
White, G. D., Statesville, Rt. 5
White, Harvey, Taylorsville, Rt. 2
Whitehurst, B. A'larshall, Roanoke
Rapids
Whitley, B. G., Greensboro,
1200 Elwell Avenue
Whitlock, W. H., Brevard, Rt. 1
Whitted, Alvis M., Richlands
Wiggs, Jas. E., Greensboro,
1515 Grove Street
Wilbanks, Doc, Dallas
Wilkie, E. Cleveland, Robersonville
Wilkins, J. A., Pembroke, Rt. 1
Williams, C. B., Shiloh
Williams, E. G., Goldsboro,
119 N. Georgia Ave.
Williams, Joe, Canton, Rt. 2
Williams, J. D., Tarboro, Box 820
Williams, L. R., Maiden
Williams, R. W., Dillard, Ga., Rt. 1
Williams, T. H., Raleigh, Rt. 2
Williams, Wm. Harrison, Charlotte,
1115 South Boulevard
Williamson, W. D., Salisbury,
1515 North Main St.
Willis, Garland, Bryson City
Willis, J. B., Hamlet
Wilson, W. Gordon, Marion, Cross
Mill Station
Wilson, Paul, Morganton, Rt. 3
Wilson, Ralph A., Burlington, Rt. 2
W'ilson, R. L., Ayden
Wilson, S. B., Creswell
Wilson, Woodrow W., Elkin
Winkler, H. M., Todd
Wood, A. B., Charlotte,
2215 Plaza Road
Wood, Harry D., Jr., Angier
Woodall, W. F., Maiden
Woodcock, Wilson W., Greensboro,
908 Forest Avenue
Woodard, J. N., Hazelwood
Woody, W. S., Spruce Pine
Worley, C. A., Barnard
Worley, S. G, Canton, Rt. 1
248
N. C. Baptist State Convention
Worrell, P. T., Yanceyville
Wyatt, Emanuel, Waynesville, Rt. 1
Yarborough, A. F., Milton
Yates, J. Clyde, Charlotte,
1409 Allen Street
Yates, J. V., Crickett
Yonce, G. H., Andrews
Young, C. S., Lexington,
80S Radford Ave.
Young, E. D., Greensboro,
Denim Branch
Young, F. L., Maxton
Younger, L. T., New Hope
Ministers Ordained But Not Active in the Pastorate at the Time
of Publication of this Volume
Abee, J. O., Connelly Springs
Abernethy, Martin, Newton
Absher, A. F., Kannapolis
Absher, J. M., North Wilkesboro
Adams, A. M., Santeetlah
Adams, J. H., Asheville
Adams, J. Z., Traphill
Adams, Jesse, North Wilkesboro
Adkins, C. C, Ramseytown
Alderman, J. O., Chapel Hill
Aldridge, J. G., Landis
Allen, C. L., Waynesville
Allen, James, Rominger
Allen, J. M., Bushnell
Almond, H. J., Mill Springs
Anderson, J. R., Stiles
Anthony, W. W., Whittier
Armstrong, Neill, Gastonia
Arrington, Ellis, Hazelwood
Arrowood, Horace, Arden
Austin, L. F., Oakboro
Bailey, C. H., Marshall
Baines, J. J., Alarka
Baird, J. A., Charlotte
Baity, A. K., North Wilkesboro
Baker, Clinton, Asheboro
Baker, J. M., Asheville
Baker, R., Zeb, Lenoir
Barbee, J. R., Rocky Mount
Barber, P. A., Gastonia, Pinkney
Station
Barker, B. H., Roaring River
Barker, W. F., Grassy Creek
Barnes, L. C, Cerro Gordo
Barnes, L. E., Hiddenite
Barnette, J. C., North Wilkesboro
Barnette, J. W., Lenoir
Barnette, P. C, Yadkin Valley
Beach, W. R., Winston-Salem
Beck, C. L, Balsam
Beck, D.'E., Webster
Beck, L. P., Badin
Bell, W. A., St. Pauls
Bennett, Hubert, Greensboro
Bennett, J. P., Asheville
Bennett, S. G., Morganton
Berry, Ralph, Icard
Biles, H. C, Ellerbe
Billings, H. P., Jamestown
Birchfield, D. F., Gastonia
Bishop, Edgar, Sylva
Bishop, Jas., Gay
Bishop, Paul, Kings Mountain
Blackburn, M. D., Lenoir
Blackburn, Wiley, Jefferson
Blackwelder, H. T., Concord
Blanton, W. A., Shelby
Blevins, E., Grassy Creek
Blevins, Jewel, Grassy Creek
Blevins, W. M., Celo
Boley, Ernest, Balsam Grove
Bolick, W. P., Lenoir
Bolton, R. L., Chapel Hill
Bond, W. E.j Varina
Boney, L. B. r Durham
Bookout, R. A., Grover
Boone, Cuther, Burnsville
Bostic, E. M., Saluda
Bostic, W. D., Shelby
Bowden, W. C, St. Pauls
Bradford, Monroe, Bee Log
Bradley, W. L., Etna
Bradley, S. A., Asheville
Bradshaw, W. M., Hudson
Brandon, S. O., Buie's Creek
Braswell, W. A., Montezuma
Brendle, C. M., Hayesville
Brewer, Grady L., Star
Brewington, C. D., Pembroke
Brewington, Joseph, Dunn
Brewington, M. L., Clinton
Brisson, W. M., Dublin
Bristol, Ira, Collettsville
Britt, D. C, Whiteville
Brooks, P. C, Roseboro
Brooks, J. C, Granite Falls
Brookshire, C. O., Belmont
Brown, James, Burlington
Brown, W. T., Shelby
Bryant, Spivey, Fairmont
Bryant, Tern, Reidsville
Bryson, A. C, Balsam
Buchanan, Fonzer, Spruce Pine
Buchanan, H., Sylva
Bullis, H. A., North Wilkesboro
Bumgarner, A., Granite Falls
Burcham, John, Roaring River
Burdock, Albert, Baltimore
Burkett, H. M., Jefferson
Burleson, Raymond, Estatoe
Burnett, Grade, Parrish
Burns, J. R., Drexel
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Burrus, G. E., Rockford
Butler, A. L., Ewart
Byrd, Albert, North Wilkesboro
Byrd, R. L., St. Pauls
Byrd, Fred, Black Mountain
Byerly, J. W., Buie's Creek
Byerly, W. H., Lenoir
Cable, Lee, Fontana
Cable, Martin, Proctor
Caldwell, Henry, Canton
Callahan, Glenn, West Asheville
Call, Andrew, North Wilkesboro
Call, C. M., Wilkesboro
Campbell, J. W., Bina
Campbell, W. T., Fuquay Springs
Candler, T. M., Rusk
Cannady, Carlus, Hope Mills
Carlton, J. T., Jonesville
Carpenter, C. A.j Spruce Pine
Carringer, Charlie, Robbinsville
Carson, W. L., Weaverville
Carter, A. D., Garland
Cashwell, C. H., Fayetteville
Cates, T. K., Bryson City
Caudill, C. M., Hays
Caulder, W. M., Cerro Gordo
Chambers, Caney, Asheville
Chapman, Johnnie, Gastonia
Chavis, C. J., Pembroke
Chavis, John D., Laurinburg
Chavis, Z. R., Pembroke
Cheek, L. C, Chapel Hill
Church, A. B., Boone
Clark, B. F., Kannapolis
Clark, Ellis, Swepsonville
Clark, Everett, Marshall
Clark, Kenneth, Durham
Clark, L. F., Canton
Clonninegar, John, Kings Mountain
Cockerham, T. J., Crumpler
Coffey, Charles, High Point
Coffey, G. G., Lenoir
Coffey, W. E., Buffalo Cove
Cogburn, T. M., Canton
Cohn, H. D., Candler
Collier, S. M., Charlotte
Combs, J. A., Thomasville
Comer, D. H., Hickory
Comer, W. T., Stony Point
Conner, Tom, Rutherfordton
Cook, Jess, Minneapolis
Cook, Robin, Minneapolis
Cook, R. C, Globe
Cook, Roy J., Bryson City
Cook, T. C, Bakersville
Cook, W. N., Webster
Coone, C. M., Charlotte
Cooper, W. F., Trap Hill
Cope, C. M., Crumpler
Copeland, J. E., Colerain
Coren, J. A., Brevard
Cornwell, R. C, Grandview
Cowan, G. N., Rocky Mount,
757 Falls Road
Cox, R. E., Durham
Cox, W. H., Wilmington
Cranford, D. T., Harris
Crawford, Lee, Shelby
Crisp, Pearlie, Bushnell
Crutchfield, T. S., Albemarle
Culler, E. M., Mount Airy
Curry, G. W., Benham
Dameron, Marvin, Boiling Springs
Danner, T. T., Valle Crucis
Davenport, J. E. M., Pineville
Davis, B. M., Toecane
Davis, L. A., Alexander
Davis, Theo. B., Zebulon
Davis, W. H., Hendersonville
Day, O. C, Nantahala
Deal, O. E., Taylorsville
Deanton, Paul, Shannon
Dehart, Wint, Tellico
Deitz, T. F., Sylva
Dellinger, O. C, Collettsville
Deloache, B. F., Graham
Dendy, F. E., Highlands
Denny, Gilmer, Pinnacle
Denny, Jesse, Apple Grove
Dix, O. P., High Point
Dodd, W. H., Ridgecrest
Dollinger, R. L., Sturgills
Donaho, H. E., Burnsville
Dorsett, G. D., Greensboro
Dotson, Roy, Boone
Dove, A. H., Bladenboro
Dowell, C. L., Wake Forest
Driver, J. E., Lenoir
Dry, Sam, Kannapolis
Duncan, V. E., Semora
Dunning, W. A., Durham
Edwards, Emory, Bee Log
Edwards, W. L., Barnardsville
Eggers, Blain, Creston
Eggers, Carter, Creston
Eller, E. A., Grassy Creek
Eller, LeRoy, Moravian Falls
Eller, V. G., Purlear
Elrod, J. M., Granite Falls
Ensle}', Herman, Cherokee
Eubanks, M. E., Maysville
Evans, C. R., Maggie
Farrington, B. H., Colfax
Farthing, E. J., Sugar Grove
Fenwick, Frank, Asheville
Finch, A., Mt. Airy
Fizer, J. R., Charlotte
Flack, O. R., Bostic
Fletcher, B. D., Mount Airy
Fletcher, J. F., North Wilkesboro
Forbes, R. G., Ahoskie
Foster, J. H., Wilmington
Frazier, Drewry, Red Oak
Freeman, J. Grady, Leicester
250
N. C. Baptist State Convention
Freeman, Hugh, Belmont
Friday, C. F., Taylorsville
Frye, F. W., Jonesville
Fugate, Ben C, Cove Creek
Furgeson, W. H., Albemarle
Galimore, A. R., Wake Forest
Gardner, S. E., Asheville
Gentry, Glen, Elk Park
Gentry, J. H., West Jefferson
George, Goliath, Cherokee
Gill, Everett, Wake Forest
Gillespie, W. N., Rosman
Gilliam, C. W., Jonesville
Goforth, C. J., Forest City
Gold, W. M., Ellenboro
Goode, J. M., Boiling Springs
Goodman, C. F., West Jefferson
Gooch, E. D., Oxford
Gough, W. H., Pinnacle
Grant, J. H., Flats
Grant, M. D., Swannanoa
Green, Clayton, Shull's Mills
Green, J. R., Hillsboro
Green, J. Y., Asheville
Green, R. W., Green's Creek
Green, W. C, Laxton
Grice, E. S., Gastonia
Griffin, Gaston, Bryson City
Griffin, R. A., Mount Airy
Griffin, W. M., Alexander
Grigg, W. L., Jefferson
Griggs, J. M., Jefferson
Grindstaff, Roy, Spruce Pine
Gunter, Wayne, Bryson City
Haas, L. P., Rhodhiss _
Hagaman, J. P., Lenoir
Hair, P. H., West Jefferson
Hall, E. O., Bushnell
Hall, J. T., Lake Toxoway
Hall, M. L., Murphy
Hamm, W. M., Laurel Springs
Hammonds, Chesley, Fairmont
Hammonds, J. E., Shannon
Hampton, C. G., West Asheville
Hanks, Uriah, Springfield
Hannon, S. E., Carthage
Hardin, D. C, Rutherfordton
Hargett, S. M., Rutherfordton
Harper, Thos. Biltmore
Harris, C. L., Mount Airy
Harris, Carl, Wake Forest
Harris, John, Argura
Harris, J. F., Manchester
Harris, J. S., Concord
Harris, L. B., Mooresboro
Harris, Ralph, Albemarle
Harron, C. D., Weaverville
Harward, G. N., Chapel Hill
Hayes, C. C, Mount Airy
Hayes, T. M., Nathan's Creek
Haynes, Ralph, Forest City
Haynes, W. L., Forest City
Heatherly, Ben, Canton
Heatherly, T. C, Candler
Hedrick, Leslie, Robbinsville
Heilig, J. A., Concord
Henderson, J. K., Scotland Neck
Hensley, J. E., Celo
Herring, A. C, Bladenboro
Herring, R. H., Zebulon
Hester, J. M., Elizabethtown
Hice, W. H., Granite Falls
Hickman, G. T., Winnabow
Hicks, J. G., Kings Mountain
Hicks, J. J., Kings Mountain
Higgins, John, Wilkesboro
Hildebran, Julius, Hickory
Hill, W. E., Caroleen
Hill, J. W. P., Forest City
Hipps, J. B., Asheville
Hocutt, Aaron, Wilmington
Hodges, James M., Blowing Rock
Hodges, J. L., Rutherfordton
Hogsed, Boyd, Hayesville
Holcomb, W. E., Statesville
Holden, F. H., Pisgah Forest
Honeycutt, W. W., Forest City
Hooks, E. A., Raleigh
Horn, G. P., Rutherfordton
Home, Paul, Creston
Howell, B. D., Mocksville
Hoxit, Vessie, Wolf Mountain
Hudgins, D. J., Leicester
Hudson, Albert, Casar
Hudson, L. L., Oxford
Huffman, M. A., Icard
Hughes, Durham, Shelby
Humphrey, D. B., Lumberton
Humphrey, H. B., Kannapolis
Humphries, F. D., Durham
Huneycutt, George A., Salisbury
Hunt, J. E., Raynham
Hunt, W. G., Lumberton
Hutchens, Henry, Winston-Salem
Hurley, W. L., Crumpler
Hurst, W. T., Pittsboro
Hutchens, C. C, Mount Airy
Hutchins, E. L., Greensboro
Hyde, O., Stecoah
Inman, Fred, Waynesville
Isley, James, Swannanoa
Ives, D. H., Concord
Jackson, Bernice, Oxford
Jacobs, R. B., Pembroke
Jacobs, T. O. L., Fayetteville
James, W. C, Mount Airy
Jamison, Thas, Sylva
Jarrett, J. F., Linwood
Jarvis, N. T., Roaring River
Jenkins, H., Bryson City
Jenks, L. D., Neuse
Johnson, A. A., Candler
Johnson, E. O., St. Pauls
Johnson, Noah, Meat Camp
Johnson, K. B., Weaverville
Johnson, W. L., Hamptonville
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Jolly, J. R., Jonesville
Jones, J. T., Hendersonville
Jones, Oscar M., Raleigh
Jones, S. A., North Wilkesboro
Jones, Sam, White Plains
Jones, T. A., Forest City
Jones, Theodore, Andrews
Jones, Woodrow, White Plains
Jordan, Alphonso, Raleigh
Jordan, B. C, Roaring River
Jumper, Ute, Whittier
Justice, A. J., Hendersonville
Kendrick, R. G., Durham
Keeler, E. C, Dunn
Kelly, Geo. M., Magnolia
Kelly, W. M., Wilmington
Keller, L. N., Fleetwood
Key, H. R., Mount Airy
Keys, F. L., Robbinsville
Kilby, John, Wilkesboro
Kilpatrick, A. F., Candler
King, J. D., Cane River
King, R. E., Thomasville
King, T. H., Wake Forest
Knotts, W. E., Wadesboro
Koerber, Fred, Greensboro
Lake, Leford, Franklin
Lanning, T. D., Leicester
Lanning, H. O., Lexington
Lancaster, R. F., Boiling Springs
Larkins, J. D., Kinston
Lassiter, A. G., Star
Lawson, H. O., Pinnacle
Leatherwood, F. H., Waynesville
Ledford, Lester, Prentiss
Ledford, R. B.^ Hayesville
Lee, D. S., Lenoir
Lee, L. C, Durham
Leggett, G. D., Windsor
Lennon, R. S., Wake Forest
Letterman, Theo, Spruce Pine
Lewis, Herman, Bolton
Lineberger, C. A., Alexis
Liner, H. G, Concord
Litterel, Charlie, Marshall
Little, Luther, Charlotte
Livingston, E. A., Staley
Locust, Arthur, Bryson City
Lowery, Edd, Altapass
Lowery, E. L., Lawndale
Lowery, S. S., Pembroke
Lucas, R. H., Plymouth
Lynch, W. C, Rutherfordton
Lyon, J. F., Traphill
Lyon, T. M., Traphill
McAlister, T. G, Caroleen
McCall, Qyde, Lake Toxoway
McCall, Thomas, Highlands
McCarter, Jesse, Raleigh
McCarter, W. P., Mocksville
McCarry, W. E., Charlotte
McCoy, D. C, Eton
McCracken, R. P., Clyde
McCurray, Arthur, Bryson City
McDaniel, C. L., Connelly Springs
McDaniel, E. L., Ellenboro
McDaniel, J. R., Buie's Creek
McDowell, B. S., High Point
McDuffie, J. F., Chapel Hill
McElreath, F. M., Leicester
McFalls, W. T., Leicester
McGee, Clifford, Estatoe
McGuire, C. W.j Asheville
McGuire, J. T., Altapass
McGuire, V. V., Asheville
McHorne, C. J., Asheville
Mclntyre, S. L., Oakboro
McKeithan, W. H., Southport
McKinney, Vestor, Little Switzerland
McNeal, L. P., Wilmington
Mack, Bis, Micaville
Mainwaring, C. W., Hendersonville
Maness, D. T., Hemp
Mann, Marvin T., Canton
Mann, J. R., Carthage
Mann, Lester G., Durham
Maier, M. A., Thomasville
Marshburn, Earl, Richlands
Marshall, O. N., Elizabeth City
Martin, A. C, Forest City
Martin, W. N., Candler
Mason, J. P., Asheville
Massengale, J. C, Cowarts
Massengale, Whitney, Argura
Massie, William, Canton
Matheney, H. G., Charlotte
Matherly, W. F., Greensboro
Matheson, M., Robbinsville
Mathis, A. S., Cycle
Mathis, B., Jonesville
Matthews, C. H., Asheville
Matthews, G. S., Canton
May, Geo. W., Red Oak
Mayberry, O. B., North Wilkesboro
Maynor, L. A., Pembroke
Medford, A. T., Canton
Medlin, J. M._, Charlotte
Melton, Sterling, Argura
Merritt, R. P., Kannapolis
Metcalf, Byrd, Swannanoa
Mikles, C. B., East Bend
Miller, A. L., Wallace
Miller, C. L., West Asheville
Miller, D. L., Hudson
Miller, Finley, Milan
Miller, James A., North Wilkesboro
Miller, R. B., Hudson
Miller, Smith, Jefferson
Mills, George, Dillsboro
Milner, E. W., Sanford
Minton, Clarence, North Wilkesboro
Mitchiner, J. F., Franklinton
Mizelle, J. C, Currie
Monteith, S. B., Bryson City
Monton, B. L., Buck
Moore, H. C, Ridgecrest
252
N. C. Baptist State Convention
Moore, J. W., Gilreath
Moore, M. M., Hendersonville
Moore, S. F., Fairview
Moretz, A. E., Boone
Morgan, Paul, Franklin
Morgan, S. L., Wake Forest
Morris, D. P., Norwood
Morrison, W. M., Roaring River
Moss, J. F., Kings Mountain
Mull, J. O., Vale
Mullis, G. L., Mount Holly
Mullis, H. K., Wilmington
Mullis, W. O., Jefferson
Mumford, E. F., High Point
Murray, J. F., Reidsville
Murray, L. B., State Road
Myers, Gus, Cycle
Ned, Sigley, Whittier
Nelson, J. H., Lenoir
Newton, J. D., Thomasville
Nichols, J. B., Southern Pines
Nielson, A. J., Hendersonville
Nix, _W. V., Trap Hill
Norville, J. M., Boiling Springs
Gates, D. E., Greensboro
O'Hara, J. W., Candler
O'Neill, G. G., Rutherfordton
Osborne, Angle, Sylva
Osborne, George, Cricket
Osborne, Jesse, North Wilkesboro
Osborne, Ray, Fig
Owen, Blye, Wolf Mountain
Owen, D. C, Lake Toxoway
Owen, D. L., Balsam Grove
Owen, Julius N., Lake Toxoway
Owle, Enoch, Cherokee
Padgett, Rush, Shelby
Page, J. M., Raleigh
Parker, G. M., Tuckaseigee
Parker, Vasco, Hickory
Parnell, Eli, Norwood
Parsons, Frank, Toecane
Partnor, C. W., Manchester
Passmore, P. H., Flats
Patterson, C. G., Robbinsville
Payne, J. B., Lincolnton
Payne, T. E., Hudson
Peeden, V. D., Greensboro
Pendleton, E. R., Brevard
Pennell, F. A., Kannapolis
Penley, E. G., Globe
Perkinson, S. J., Asheville
Perry, H. J., Raleigh
Peterson, J. A., Turkey
Philbeck, J. A., Cherryville
Phillips, Eugene, Toliver
Phillips, Hiram, Toliver
Phillips, J. H., Andrews
Phillips, M. B., Toast
Phillips, M. S., Lenoir
Phillips, S. E., Idlewild
Phillips, Joe, Pinola
Phillips, Wm. C, Warsaw
Philpott, Harry, Lexington
Philyow, Pink D., Collettsville
Phipps, Paul, Crumpler
Phipps, Roy, Asheville
Pickler, C. L., Albemarle
Plybon, Chas. T., Carthage
Ponder, N. L., Brevard
Porch, Jeter, Rhodhiss
Powell, E. G., Gastonia
Powers, Elmer, Tuckerdale
Pressley, Harvey, Skyland
Prestwood, R. L., Hudson
Price, John E., Canton
Privette, J. E., Union Grove
Privette, G. W., Roaring River
Propst, Mark, Gastonia
Pruett, W. M., Hazelwood
Pruett, Gar, Springfield
Pugh, R. L., New Bern
Purvis, S. L., Acme
Raines, F. A., Rosman
Rash, Carrus, Marshall
Ray, Barnette, Celo
Ray, W. E., Burnsville
Redmon, G. R., Asheville
Redmon, W. H., Kings Mountain
Reece, A. V., Hendersonville
Reece, Thomas, Jonesville
Reed, Green, Toliver
Reid, B. W., Tryon
Rhodes, C. G., Asheville
Rice, Earl, Marshall
Rice, Howard, Marshall
Rich, Remus, Connelly Springs
Riddle, Edd, Cane River
Riddle, J. L., Mocksville
Riddle, Roy, Cane River
Rivenbark, Latt, Rockingham
Robbins, J. W., Sharpsburg
Robbins, Ronald, Lenoir
Robbins, T. S., Deep Gap
Roberson, Burgar, Marshall
Roberson, W. L., Burlington
Roberts, Connell, Mars Hill
Roberts, David, Caroleen
Roberts, J. W., Asheville
Roberts, H. M., Gastonia
Robertson, Elzie, Bee Log
Robinson, Roland, Lake Toxoway
Rogers, James, Stecoah
Rogers, L. J., Canton
Rogers, W. T., Cullowhee
Rose, Theo, Lake Toxoway
Rowland, Fred, Whittier
Rowland^ Lloyd, Bryson City
Rufty, J. L., Taylor sville
Ruppe, J. J., Rutherfordton
Sampson, W. J., Lumberton
Sawyer, C. E., Biltmore
Seism, L. B., Kings Mountain
Scott, Erwin : Canton
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Scruggs, Gordon, Waynesville
Sears, H. C, Apex
Secrest, David, Lenoir
Secrest, Eugene, Drexel
Sentell, R. E., Canton
Shaver, J. M., Granite Falls
Shepherd, D. L., Smethport
Shew, Tom, Lenoir
Shoemaker, T. P., Lenoir
Shook, Frank, Bryson City
Shufford, Aaron, Celo
Simms, H. A., Kannapolis
Sisk, C. T., Bryson City
Sitton, F. J., Bryson City
Slagle, Jesse, Marshall
Smart, B. B., Ellenboro
Smith, A. J., Stiles
Smith, C. C., Durham
Smith, C. R., Kernersville
Smith, Daniel, Canton
Smith, H. H., Deep Gap
Smith, R. C, Cherokee
Smith, Sibbald, Cherokee
Smith, W. E., Rutherfordton
Smith, W. T., Bryson City
Snow, J. B., Statesville
Snyder, G. C., Sylva
Solomon, D. F., Cameron
Sorrells, A. P., Union Mills
Sparks, J. Y., Toecane
Spaulding, J. H., Murfreesboro
Spillman, B. W., Kinston
Squirrel, Sheppard, Cherokee
Staley, A. A., Wilbar
Stepp, C. N., Canton
Stevens, Sanford, Rutherfordton
Stillwell, Jason, Hickory
Stroud, I. T., Wake Forest
Sudderth, L. W., Montezuma
Sullins, David, Altapass
Sullivan, J. A., Wilmington
Surrette, Riley, Candler
Summey, M. E., Rosland
Summey, M. M., Black Mountain
Suther, M. E., Wilmington
Swann, S. G., Statesville
Swayngin, Ed, Waynesville
Tanner, M. T., Wake Forest
Tate, L. R., Statesville
Tatum, W. Roger, Wilmington
Taylor, E. C, Red Springs
Teague, E. A., Gastonia
Teague, J. L., Hickory
Tedder, D. A., Shelby
Testerman, Luther, Amy
Thomas, J. N., Burnsville
Thomas, Leonard, Boiling Springs
Thomason, J. A., Hamptonville
Thompson, Thos. E., Hendersonville
Thompson,. T. M., Whiteville
Thorne, J. L., Rutherfordton
Threat, Tilroe, Polkton
Tomblin, C. C, Spindale
Tothrow, S. A., Andrews
Trippee, R. E., Kannapolis
Trivett, J. R., Creston
Trivett, J. S., Fleetwood
Trivett, W. G, West Jefferson
Turbyfill, W. M., Clarissa
Turner, Carl, Graham
Turner, L. S., Concord
Turner, Wiley, Hamptonville
Turpen, G. L., Yellow Creek
Tyner, J. L.j Whiteville
Vaden, Chas. F., Raleigh
Vanoy, F. Gaither, Toliver
Wacaster, Lee, Cherryville
Waddell, Lee, Grassy Creek
Waldrop, J. J., Vale
Walker, W. H., Morganton
Wallin, Stephen, Marshall
Walton, Rolie, Wilmington
Warren, John F., Wilmington
Washburn, D. G., Shelby
Watkins, W. C, Bryson City
Watson, G. M., Boone
Watson, Thos., Lenoir
Waugh, W. H., Jr., Burlington
Weaver, Carl, Gastonia
Webster, J. A., Taylorsville
Weisner, R. C, Olin
Welborn, Seldon, Mount Airy
Wells, John, North Wilkesboro
West, Adolphus, Brevard
West, Paul, Raleigh
West, W. A., Andrews
Wheeler, Fred, Selo
Whitaker, L. R., Shelby
White, J. P., Maggie
White, Wade, Mars Hill
Wild, Joe, Marshall
Wiggins, David, Waynesville
Williams, David, Waynesville
Williams, Gardner, Yellow Creek
Williams, J. G., Jackson Springs
Williams, Lester, Aquone
Williams, T. N., Raleigh
Williams, W. A., Brevard
Willis, B. J., Wilmington
Willis, D. G., Weaverville
Willis, John, Bee Log
Willis, R. T., Jr., Morehead City
Willoughby, R. A., Lumberton
Wilson, Paul, Morganton
Wilson, Radford, Scaley
Wilson, T. O., Cane River
Womack, P., Morganton
Wood, Grant, Gneiss
Woodruff, W. E., Mount Airy
Woody, Charlie, Spruce Pine
Woody, I. W., Ingalls
Woody, L. W., Selma
Wooten, E. K., Cycle
Wyatt, Banner, North Wilkesboro
Yale, J. W., North Wilkesboro
Young, George P., Hickory
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BAPTIST
ANNUAL
ONE-HUNDRED-FOURTEENTH
YEAR
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
CHARLOTTE
1944
Annual
of the
Baptist State Convention
of
North Carolina
One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Session
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Charlotte
November 14-16, 1944
Edited by
Charles B. Deane
Recording Secretary
Rockingham, N. C.
The next Session will be held
November 13-15, 1945
First Baptist Church, Raleigh
MRS. WESLEY NORWOOD JONES
To Whom This Volume of the Annual is Dedicated
by Order of the Convention
Born in Greeneville County, Virginia, January 29, 1868, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
C. T. Bailey. She studied at Raleigh Female Institute one year; at Peace Institute five
years; at Richmond Female Institute one year. Married Wesley N. Tones on February 6.
1887.
Children: Annie Bailey, Sallie Wesley Gallant, and William Bailey.
From her young womanhood she taught a large Sunday School class; she was active
as deaconess in her church; filling important offices in the Woman's Missionary Union of
North Carolina and of the South. Elected in 1886, at the organization of the Central
Committee of Missions as the first Corresponding Secretary of the North Carolina Union,
and afterwards served as Treasurer; also was Vice-President of the Southern W.M.U.;
State W.M.U.; President from 1916-1936; from 1936 till her death the beloved and honored
President Emeritus. At the Golden Jubilee meeting in Richmond in 1938, the Southern
W.M.U. presented her with a diamond set W.M.U. pin in recognition of her active par-
ticipation in the work of the Union through fifty-two years. Her death occurred at her
home in Raleigh on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1943. Interred in Oakwood cem-
etery, Raleigh, North Carolina.
"My life has been uneventful. I have just stuck to my job." "These words spoken
by Mrs. Jones of herself," observes her friend, Mrs. J. S. Farmer, "embody the secret
of her usefulness.'
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION PAGf
Annual, Dedicated to memory Mrs. Wesley Norwood Jones (74) facing 2
Auditor's Report and Financial Statements, Institutions 134
Baptist Book Store, executives of 5
Baptist Foundation, directors of 6
Baptist Hospital, trustees of 6
Baptist Orphanage of North Carolina, trustees of 7
Baptist Training Union, executives of 5
Baptist World Alliance, executives of 1C
Biblical Recorder, directors of 7
Campbell College, trustees of £
Charity and Children, directory of 7
Chowan College, trustees of )i
Committees:
Allied Church League (25) 29
Committee on Committees (6) 21
Constitutional Changes (46) 35
Enrollment (3) 21
General Board, to report on report of (25) 27
Historical Commission (25) 28
Music (25) 28
Order of Business (1945) (25) 28
Place and Preacher (25) 27
Publicity (25) 28
Resolutions (25) 27
Social Service and Civic Righteousness (25) 28
Trustees and Members General Board, to nominate (25) 28
Constitution 11
Amendment (50) (73) 37-48
Convention:
Audit — Income and Disbursements (90) 83
Debt, Convention Notes Burned (14) 24
Directory 5
Associational 229
Historical Table 231
Institutions 6, 9
Officers, executive and administrative 5
Officers elected:
General Secretary ( 5 ) 21
President (76) 49
Vice Presidents (76) 49
Recording Secretary (5) 21
Statistical Secretary (5) 21
Proceedings of (1) 21
Sermon — Sankey A. Blanton, Wilmington (18) 25
General Board:
By-Laws 16
Officers and organizations 5
Report (85) 69
Greetings (8) (9) 23
Kennedy Home, Superintendent of 7
Mars Hill College, trustees of 8
Meredith College, trustees of 8
Messengers 56
Ministers:
Charlotte and Neighboring Ministers recognized (11) 24
New Ministers recognized (12) 24
Ordained, active in pastorate 244
Ordained, riot active in pastorate 258
Ordained, now serving as chaplains in Armed Services 244
Ministerial Students in colleges and seminaries 239
Missionaries, North Carolina, on foreign field 238
Motions:
Re: Alcoholic Beverages (67) 46
Re: Baptist Bible Institute (,32) 30
■ Re : Constitutional Changes (46) 35
Re: Truett, George W. Memorial (30) 30
Re: Trustees, method to propose names (83) 53
Re : Wake Forest-Meredith (49) 35
SECTION PAGE
"Our Dead" 54
Pastors' Conference:
Officers 1945 9
Program 1944 55
Reports:
American Bible Society (31) 30
Baptist Book Store (118) 131
Baptist Colleges
General Statistics 119
Baptist Foundation (75) (117) 49, 129
Baptist Hospital .'...'.(69) (114) 46^122
Baptist Training Union (102) 104
Biblical Recorder (33) 30
Campbell College . (105) 114
Church Extension (92) 90
Committee on Committees (25) 27
Cooperative Program (115) 127
Education Council (87) 75
Education, Department of Christian (100) 100
Enrollment (4) (80) 21, 51
Foreign Mission (27) (34) (91) 29, 33, 87
Gardner-Webb College (106) 115
General Board:
Advance Report (13) (85) 24, 69
Committee, to report on report of (58) 40
Meetings (86) 69
Recommendations 1944 Convention (119) 131
General Missionaries (91) 88
Historical Commission (53) (116) 38, 128
Home Missions (78) (91) 49, 87
Indian Work (78) (93) 49, 91
Mars Hill College (107) 115
Meredith College (108) 116
Missions, Department of State (40) (91) 34, 87
Negro Baptists, work of • (94) 93
North Carolina Baptist Orphanage (39) (113) 34, 121
Audit Summary 141
Order of Business 1944 (7) 21
Oteen Mission (95) 95
Pastoral Assistance (91) 90
Place and Preacher (57) 39
Publicity Committee (56) 39
Radio Committee (59) (99) 40, 99
Resolutions Committee (81) 51
Relief and Annuity (20) (112) 25, 121
Sanatoriums and Samarcand (96) (97) 96, 97
Seminaries (43) 34
Social Service and Civic Righteousness (61) 40
Minority Report (61) 45
Student Work (103) 109
Sunday Schools (101) 101
Sunday School Board (24) 27
Trustees and Members General Board, to nominate (72) 47
Trustees of Convention (54) 38
Wake Forest College (109) 117
Wingate Junior College (110) 118
Woman's Missionary Union (23) 25
Ridgecrest, directory of 9
Southern Baptist Convention, directory of 9-10
Statistical Data:
Associational 146
Recapitulation 225
General Church Activities 226
Statistical Summary 234
Southern Baptist Convention 1943 228
Student Secretaries 5
Sunday School, executives of 5
Visitors Recognized , . (9) 23
Wake Forest College, trustees of 9
Woman's Missionary Union:
Directory 237
Executives 5
Statistical Summary 237
DIRECTORY OF THE CONVENTION
I. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem President
Arthur S. Gillespie, Wake Forest 1st Vice President
T. P. Pruitt, Hickory 2nd Vice President
R. Archie Ellis, Salisbury 3rd Vice President
Maloy A. Huggins, Raleigh General Secretary and Treasurer
Charles B. Deane, Rockingham Recording Secretary
L. L. Morgan, Raleigh Statistical Secretary
R. L. McMillan, Raleigh Trustee
P. H. Wilson, Raleigh Trustee
F. H. Brooks, Smithfield Trustee
II. OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION
Headquarters: Biblical Recorder Building, Raleigh, N. C.
Maloy A. Huggins, Raleigh General Secretary and Treasurer
Miss Margie Murchison, Raleigh Office Secretary
Miss Esther Ivey, Raleigh Bookkeeper
Miss Lottie Tucker, Raleigh Bookkeeper Ministers' Retirement Fund
Miss Mary Alice Gray, Raleigh Record Keeper
DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS
Earle L. Bradley, Raleigh General Missionary
J. C. Pipes, Route 1, Asheville General Missionary
E. L. Spivey, 220 West Kingston Ave., Charlotte General Missionary
Division of Sunday Schools
L. L. Morgan, Raleigh Secretary
G. W. Bullard, Raleigh Associate Secretary
Mrs. Myra Motley, Raleigh Assistant to Secretary
Miss Joy Wood, Raleigh Office Secretary
Division of Baptist Training Union
Harvey T. Gibson, Raleigh Secretary
Law M. Mobley, Raleigh Young People's Leader
Miss Louise Paschall Junior Leader
Miss Margaret Sparks, Raleigh Intermediate Leader *
Miss Mary Lou Wall, Raleigh Office Secretary
Division of Student Activities
R. T. Howerton, Jr., Raleigh Secretary
Miss Adelaide Charles, Raleigh Office Secretary
Miss Laura Durant, Greensboro Campus Secretary
Miss Mary Lee Ernest, Greenville Campus Secretary
Miss Marjorie Toole, Boone Campus Secretary
BAPTIST BOOK STORE
Mrs. Roger P. Marshall, Raleigh Manager
Mrs. John M. Link, Raleigh Associate
Miss Mary Ayscue, Raleigh Associate
Miss Iva Sue Maddry, Raleigh Bookkeeper
Miss Frances Puckett Stenographer
Mrs. Margie B. Hart Clerk-
Mrs. P. T. Whittiugton Clerk
DEPARTMENT OF WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Mrs. J. S. Farmer, Raleigh President
Miss Mary Currin, Raleigh Executive Secretary
Miss Ora Alf ord, Raleigh Treasurer
Miss Kathryn Abee, Raleigh Young People's Leader
Miss Ruth Keller, Raleigh Field Worker
Mrs. Edna Buffaloe, Raleigh Stenographer
Miss Lillian Ogburn, Raleigh Stenographer
III. THE GENERAL BOARD AND ORGANIZATION
E. N. Gardner, President, Henderson
Clyde E. Baucom, Vice President, Wilson
Charles B. Deane, Secretary, Rockingham
Term Expiring 1945— Claude F. Gaddy, Raleigh; S. C. Eggers, Boone; T. W. Fryer,
New Bern; M. L. Banister, Oxford; Hubert M. Craig, Lincolnton; Fred Forester, Drexel ;
W. W. Jones, Kannapolis; Howard G. Dawkins, Hertford; A. J. Whitley, Jr., Smithfield;
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Chas. B. Trammel, Troy; Donald G. Myers, Wadesboro; E. N. Gardner, Henderson; A. B\
Wood, Charlotte; Mrs. R. K. Redwine, Mt. Airy; John R. Link, Mars Hill; J. R. Mor-
gan, Waynesville.
Term Expiring 1946— Clyde E. Baucom, Wilson; J. B. Efird, Charlotte; T. L. Cash-
well, Gastonia; N. D. Fox, Sparta; A. B. Alderman, Snow Hill; Carey P. Herring, Fair-
mont; Earle L. Bradley, Wilmington; W. E. Stanley, Durham; Lloyd Griffin, Edenton;
C. F. Gore, Weldon; S. L. Morgan, Jr., Dunn; Santford Martin, Winston-Salem; B. G.
Henry, Tryon; Louis S. Gaines, Fayetteville; Harry Y. Gamble, Statesville; J. E. Baker,
Burlington.
Term Expiring 1947— W. T. Moss, Youngsville; W. A. Elam, Shelby; J. Marshall
Walker, Stovall; G. W. Green, Spruce Pine; J. Emmett Griffin, Monroe; Miss Addie
Mae Cook, Murphy; T. C. Johnson, Kinston; R. C. Shearin, Hickory; George Beavers,
Apex; R. E. Adams, Winston-Salem; J. Roy Clifford, Lexington; C. Sylvester Green,
Durham; R. F. Jarrett, Dillsboro; A. J. Buckner, Asheville; James B. Turner, Laurin-
burg; Carl L. Ousley, Siler City.
Executive Committee: E. N. Gardner, Chairman; M. L. Banister, Secretary; Claude F.
Gaddy, Louis S. Gaines, W. E. Stanley, T. C. Johnson, C. Sylvester Green, Ralph A.
Herring, ex. of.
Committee on Missions: Clyde E. Baucom, Chairman; T. W. Fryer, Secretary ; M.
L. Banister, S. C. Eggers, J. Marshall Walker, Fred Forester, A. B. Wood, Hubert M.
Craig, J. B. Efird, Carey P. Herring, Harry Y. Gamble, James B. Turner.
Committee on Training Activities: L. S. Gaines, Chairman; B. G. Henry, Secretary ;
Mrs. R. K. Redwine, C. F. Gore, N. D. Fox, Lloyd Griffin, J. E. Baker, R. C. Shearin,
J. Roy Clifford, Miss Addie Mae Cook, R. E. Adams, J. Emmett Griffin.
Committee on Education: Claude F. Gaddy, Chairman; Donald G. Meyers, Secretary ;
J. R. Morgan, John R. Link, C. Sylvester Green, T. C. Johnson, Carl L. Ousley, Charles
B. Trammel, Howard G. Dawkins, W. T. Moss, Santford Martin, A. B. Alderman.
Committee on Benevolence: W. E. Stanley, Chairman; S. L. Morgan, Jr., Secretary;
A. J. Whitley, T. L. Cashwell, Earle L. Bradley, E. N. Gardner, W. W. Jones, W. A.
Elam, A. J. Buckner, George Beavers, R. F. Jarrett, G. W. Green.
IV. THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE CONVENTION
BAPTIST FOUNDATION
Authorized by Baptist State Convention, November 12, 1919
Organized December 15, 1919
First meeting of Directors, November 17, 1920
T. S. Johnston, Secretary, Raleigh
Term Expiring 1945 — T. S. Johnson, Raleigh; Clarence Howell, Raleigh; Mrs. R. M.
Squires, Wake Forest.
Term Expiring 1946 — Earl C. James, Elkin; Joe S. Correll, Raleigh; George Pennell,
Asheville.
Term Expiring 1947 — R. L. Patton, Morganton; Bruce Benton, Rockingham; Grover H.
Jones, High Point.
Term Expiring 1948 — W. F. Marshall, Walnut Cove; Guy Carswell, Charlotte; W. E.
Goode, Scotland, Neck.
Term Expiring 1949 — J. D. Wilkins, Greensboro; W. L. Bennett, Wadesboro; E. M.
Johnson, Lumberton.
BAPTIST HOSPITAL
Authorized by Baptist State Convention, November 17, 1920
Chartered December 27, 1922
Began Operations, May 28, 1923
Smith Hagaman, Superintendent, Winston-Salem
Board of Trustees
J. S. Lynch, President, Winston-Salem
Term Expiring 1945 — E. F. Tullock, Winston-Salem; W. K. McGee, Thomasville;
Irving E. Carlyle, Winston-Salem; O. M. Mull, Shelby; B. B. Dougherty, Boone; R. L.
Wall, Winston-Salem.
Term Expiring 1946— Mrs. C. M. Myers, Elkin; E. L. Davis, Winston-Salem; Don C.
Voung, Asheville; Mrs. J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro; C M. Scott, High Point; T. W.
Baker, Charlotte.
Term Expiring 1947 — Mrs. J. J. Roddick, Winston-Salem; G. E. Tucker, Winston-
Salem; W. Grady Southern, Winston-Salem; John R. Knott, Charlotte; E. L. Layfield,
Raleigh; B. A. Bowers, Ridgecrest.
Term Expiring 1948 — Amos S. Bumgardner, Charlotte; R. E. Earp, Selma; J. S. Lynch,
Winston-Salem; James G. Middleton, Wilmington; Mrs. Otis E. Tucker, Winston-Salem.
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE OF NORTH CAROLINA
MILLS HOME
General Managership began January 12, 1885
First orphan, Mary Presson, received November 11, 1885
Ike G. Greer, General Superintendent, Thomasville
R. D. Covington, Treasurer, Thomasville
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charity and children
John Arch McMillan, Editor, Thomasville
C. M. Howell, Plant Superintendent, Thomasville
Published every Thursday by the Baptist Orphanage of North Carolina
Orphanage Journal of the Baptists of North Carolina
Founded in 1887 by John H. Mills
Former Editors
John H. Mills, July 14, 1887 to July 27, 1888; J. W. Oliver, August 3, 1888 to August
24, 1888; John H. Mills, August 31, 1888 to August 30, 1895; Vacant,
September 6, 1895 to October 4, 1895; Archibald Johnson, October
11, 1895 to January 10, 1935; John Arch McMillan, Associate
Editor, October 31, 1929 to January 10, 1935. Acting
Editor January 17, 1935 to May 9, 1935;
Editor May 16, 1935 —
Circulation, 28,756 — Price, $1.00 per year
KENNEDY HOME BRANCH
Transfer of property, April 26, 1912
First group admitted, June 5, 1914
W. C. Reed, Superintendent, Kinston
Board of Trustees
Zeno Wall, President, Shelby
Term Expiring 1945— Charles Shields, Scotland Neck; J. W. Noell, Roxboro; T. H.
Broyhill, Lenoir; W. M. York, Greensboro; Carroll C. Wall, Lexington.
Term Expiring 1946 — Carl Hood, Asheville; J. H. Canaday, Kinston; John T. Coley,
Rocky Mount; H. W. Baucom, Sr., Black Mountain.
Term Expiring 1947 — Homer Andrews, Burlington; W. T. Love, Jr., Elizabeth City;
T. P. Pruitt, Hickory; Mrs. F. A. Bower, Morganton; Mrs. E. B. Gentry, Charlotte.
Term Expiring 1948— Zeno Wall, Shelby; H. S. Stokes, Winston-Salem; Robert A.
Mclntyre, Lumberton; Glenn Choate, Salisbury.
BIBLICAL RECORDER
L. L. Carpenter, Editor, Raleigh
Published every Wednesday in Raleigh, as the Journal of the Baptist State Convention
of North Carolina
Founded in 1833 by Thomas Meredith in Edenton. Moved to New Bern in 1835, then to
Raleigh in 1838. Publication suspended in 1841, but resumed in 1843. Originally
incorporated 1901 and owned by the Biblical Recorder Publishing Company until
purchased by The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina in 1938.
On January 4, 1939 the first issue was published by the Convention.
Former Editors
Thomas Meredith, 1833-51; T. W. Tobey, 1851-53; J. J. James, 1854-61; J. D. Hufham.
1861-67; J. H. Mills, 1867-73; A. F. Redd and J. D. Hufham, 1873-74; C. T.
Bailey, 1875-95; Josiah W. Bailey, 1895-1907; C. W. Blanchard, 1907; Hight
C. Moore, 1907-17; Livingston Johnson, 1917-31; J. S. Farmer, 1931-38;
George W. Paschal, Contributing Editor, 1938-39; and Acting Editor,
1939; John Calvin Slemp, 1939-41; Eugene I. Olive.
1941-42; L. L. Carpenter, 1942
Circulation, 14,434 — Price, $2.00 a year
Board of Directors
Carl M. Townsend, Chairman, Raleigh
Term Expiring 1945 — J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro; W. Perry Crouch, Asheville; Lee
C. Sheppard, Raleigh; Eugene Bullard, Wilmington.
Term Expiring 1946 — E. F. Sullivan, Hickory; J. Glenn Blackburn, Lumberton; Claude
U. Broach, Charlotte; Garland A. Hendricks, Apex.
Term Expiring 1947 — Oscar Creech, Ahoskie; E. H. Potts, Elizabeth City; Carl M.
Townsend, Raleigh; Henry B. Anderson, Durham.
Term Expiring 1948— J. S. Hopkins, High Point; G. Carl Lewis, Wilmington; E. C.
Tatum, Cooleemee; T. Lacy Williams, Raleigh.
V. TRUSTEES OF VARIOUS COLLEGES
CAMPBELL COLLEGE
Opened as Buie's Creek Academy, January 5, 1887
Became Buie's Creek Junior College, August 31, 1926
Authorized by Baptist State Convention to become Campbell College
December 17, 1926
New Charter Campbell College Adopted by Trustees April 7, 1927
Leslie H. Campbell, President, Buie's Creek
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Board of Trustees
B. F. McLeod, Chairman, Buie's Creek
Term Expiring 1945 — S. F. Teague, Raleigh; G. F. Pope, Dunn; Mrs. W. M. Morgan,
Angier; Mrs. Eugene I. Olive, Wake Forest; H. B. Taylor, Dunn.
Term Expiring 1946 — B. F. McLeod, Buie's Creek; A. Lincoln Fulk, Washington;
Jere D. Freeman, Wilmington; Mrs. J. G. Layton, Lillington; J. E. Lanier, Winton.
Term Expiring 1947 — George W. Davis, Farmville; Henry B. Day, Sr., Raleigh; R. B.
Wilkins, Durham; R. M. Olive, Fayetteville; W. C. Downing, Fayetetville.
Term Expiring 1948 — James I. MiU er > Wilson; D. T. Dickie, Henderson; D. H.
Senter, Chalybeate Springs; W. H. Upchurch, Oxford; W. C. Lucas, Asheboro.
CHOWAN COLLEGE*
Founded and opened for students as Chowan Female Institute
October 11, 1848
First called Chowan Female College Institute in 1851
First called Chowan Baptist Female Institute in 1868
Became Chowan College, May 17, 1910
Changed to a Junior College, September 1937
Board of Trustees
Merrill Evans, Chairman, Ahoskie
Term Expiring 1945 — W. D. Boone, Winton; B. T. Ward, Sunbury; John O. Askew,
Harrellsville; J. Ellott Ward, Sr., Elizabeth City; W. R. Parker, Woodland; Dennis Mor-
gan, Elizabeth City.
Term Expiring 1946 — W. J. Rountree, Hobbsville; Harry Stephenson, Pendleton; W. T.
Love, Jr., Elizabeth City; George Gibbs, Murfreesboro; A. E. Bowen, Windsor; Mrs. H.
C. Newbold, Elizabeth City.
Term Expiring 1947 — John M. Elliott, Edenton; Mrs. P. D. Sewell, Murfreesboro;
W. A. McGlohon, Murfreesboro; J. Craig Revelle, Murfreesboro; Raynor Woodard, Con-
way; Harry Fereba, Camden.
Term Expiring 1948 — George T. L T nderwood, Murfreesboro; Mrs. Sallie Parker, Jack-
son; D. P. Medlin, South Mills; Merrill Evans, Ahoskie; Charles H. Jenkins, Aulander;
Lowell K. Powell, Ahoskie.
MARS HILL COLLEGE
First Commencement or Exhibition as French Broad Baptist Institute
July 4, 1857
Chartered Mars Hill College, February 16, 1859
Opened as Mars Hill Junior College, August 14, 1922
Hoyt Blackwell, President, Mars Hill
Board of Trustees
E. F. Watson, President, Spruce Pine
Term Expiring 1945 — J. Ben Eller, Greensboro; D. C. Bryson, Sylva; W. Locke Rob
inson, Mars Hill; C. E. Blackstock, Asheville; W. R. Chambers, Marion; Emory C
McCall, Lenoir; Mrs. Paul P. Davis, Yadkinville.
Term Expiring 1946 — Julian A. Glazener, Brevard; Roy Wall, Mars Hill; A. W. White
hurst, Marshall; Mrs. C. M. Palmer, Albemarle; Robert O. Huffman, Morganton.
Term Expiring 1947 — J. R. Owen, Asheville; Mrs. W. E. Logan, West Asheville; J. B
Grice, West Asheville; W. H. Hipps, Asheville; James B. Keith, Asheville; Horace G
Hammett, Durham.
Term Expiring 1948 — Wm. Marvin Scruggs, Charlotte; W. T. Duckworth, Asheville
Mrs. Bertha Carr, Hickory; E. F. Watson, Spruce Pine; W. H. Wray, Gastonia; Mrs
Rush Stroup, Shelby.
MEREDITH COLLEGE
Incorporated as Baptist Female University of North Carolina, February 27, 1891
Opened for Students, September 27, 1899
By Legislative enactment became Baptist University for Women, January 20, 1905
Became Meredith College by Legislative enactment, January 24, 1911
Carlyle Campbell, President, Raleigh
Board of Trustees
W. H. Weatherspoon, President, Raleigh
Term Expiring 1945 — E. J. Britt, Lumberton; William Harrison Williams, Charlotte;
Sankey L. Blanton, Wilmington; R. N. Simms, Raleigh; W. A. Thomas, Statesville; Henry
Edwards, Shelby.
Suspended operations since close of 1943 session.
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Term Expiring 1946 — Mrs. Mabel Claire Hoggard Maddrey, Ahoskie; Mrs. Margaret
Shields Everett, Greenville; Mrs. Beth Carroll Taylor, Charlotte; J. R. Hunter, Raleigh;
J. E. Broyhill, Lenoir; Eph Whisenhunt, Clayton.
Term Expiring 1947 — W. H. Weatherspoon, Raleigh; V. M. Dorsett, Siler City; Mrs.
Maude Davis Bunn, Raleigh; L. A. Martin, Lexington; Harry B. Caldwell, Greensboro;
A. J. Smith, Goldsboro; James M. Hayes, Winston-Salem.
Term Expiring 1948 — Mrs. Foy Johnson Farmer, Raleigh; Z. M. Caveness, Raleigh;
C. T. Council, Durham; J. Y. Joyner, La Grange; LeRoy Martin, Raleigh; Mrs. Anna
Kitchin Josey, Scotland Neck.
WAKE FOREST COLLEGE
Opened as Wake Forest Institute, February 3, 1834
Chartered as Wake Forest College, December 28, 1838
Bowman Gray Medical School of Wake Forest College
Officially opened July 1, 1941
The First Class of Students began work, September 10, 1941
Thurman D. Kitchin, President, Wake Forest
Board of Trustees
John A. Oates, President, Fayetteville
Term Expiring 1945 — Charles B. Deane, Rockingham; C. R. Hamrick, Shelby; W. J.
Conrad, Winston-Salem; Claude Gore, Rockingham; E. B. Josey, Wilmington; G. E.
Lineberry, Raleigh; W. Reid Martin, Raleigh; C. Ray Sharpe, Lexington; C. N. Peeler,
Charlotte.
Term Expiring 1946 — J. E. Allen, Warrenton; A. Y. Arledge, Raleigh; J. M. Brough-
ton, Raleigh; H. T. Hunter, Cullowhee; T. H. King, Wilmington; W. H. Early, Windsor;
E. Y. Webb, Shelby; Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem; D. R. Perry, Durham.
Term Expiring 1947 — J. B. Wyche, Hallsboro; C. H. Durham, Lumberton; D. E.
Buckner, Greensboro; G. A. Norwood, Goldsboro; J. Bivens Helms, Morganton; S. Wait
Brewer, Wake Forest; John Arch McMillan, Thomasville; Clarence H. Poe, Raleigh;
Percy B. Upchurch, Monroe; Germain Bernard, Durham.
Term Expiring 1948 — Johnson J. Hayes, Wilkesboro; A. J. Hutchins, Canton; John A.
Oates, Fayetteville; Herbert Peele, Elizabeth City; Charles C. Holland, Statesville; R. P.
Holding, Smithfield; B. M. Watkins, Durham; J. C. Watkins, Winston-Salem; J. B. Willis,
Hamlet, W. L. Wyatt, Raleigh.
VI. OFFICERS BAPTIST PASTORS' CONFERENCE
Officers for 1944
R. Knolan Benfield, President, Hickory
Chas. L. Gillespie, Vice-President, Smithfield
Charles B. Trammell, Secretary, Troy
VII. RIDGECREST
Chartered March 1907
Southern Baptist Convention Summer Assembly Grounds
Ridgecrest, North Carolina
GOVERNING BOARD
Executive Committee Southern Baptist Convention
Austin Crouch, Executive Secretary, Nashville, Tenn.
DIRECTORY OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
The Convention was organized May 8, 1845, and held its first meeting in Augusta, Ga.
The 1942 Convention was held in San Antonio, Texas.
The 1943 Convention was deferred by Executive Committee in view of war restrictions on
travel.
The 1944 Convention was held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Officers of the Convention:
President: Pat M. Neff, Waco, Texas.
First Vice President: Louis D. Newton, Atlanta, Ga.
Second Vice President: Wm. Harrison Williams, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Secretaries: Hight C. Moore, Nashville, Tenn.; Joseph Henry Burnett, Hendersonville,
North Carolina.
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Boards of the Convention:
Foreign Mission Board, Richmond, Va., M. T. Rankin, Executive Secretary. North
Carolina member: Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem.
Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Ga., J. B. Lawrence, Executive Secretary-Treasurer.
North Carolina member: R. K. Redwine, Mount Airy.
Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tenn., T. L. Holcomb, Executive Secretary. North
Carolina member: B. A. Bowers, Ridgecrest.
Relief and Annuity Board, Dallas, Texas, T. J. Watts, Executive Secretary. North
Carolina member: E. Norfleet Gardner, Henderson.
Institutions of the Convention:
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ellis A. Fuller, President, Louisville, Ky.
North Carolina members of Board of Trustees: J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro; Ralph
A. Herring, Winston-Salem.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, E. D. Head, President, Seminary Hill,
Texas. North Carolina member of Board of Trustees: A P Stephens, Burlington.
Baptist Bible Institute, Duke K. McCall, President, New Orleans, La. North Carolina
member of Board of Trustees: Wilson W. Woodcock, Greensboro.
American Baptist Theological Seminary, E. P. Alldredge, Chairman, Nashville, Tenn.
Southern Baptist Hospital, Louis J. Bristow, Secretary, New Orleans, La. North
Carolina director: Eugene Olive, Wake Forest.
Commissions of the Convention:
Education Commission — Chas. D. Johnson, Chairman, Waco, Texas. North Carolina
member: W. R. Cullom, Wake Forest.
Social Service Commission — J. B. Weatherspoon, Chairman, Louisville, Ky. North
Carolina members: I. G. Greer, Thomasville, George D. Heaton, Charlotte.
Standing Committees of the Convention:
Baptist Brotherhood of the South, Lawson H. Cooke, General Secretary, Memphis,
Tenn. North Carolina member: C. R. Browning, Jr., Asheville.
Executive Committee, Austin Crouch, Executive Secretary, Nashville, Tenn. North
Carolina members: William Harrison Williams, Charlotte, Perry Crouch, Asheville,
and C. C. Warren, Charlotte.
Order of Business next Session, R. Kelly White, Chairman, Tenn. North Carolina
member: Hight C. Moore, Ridgecrest.
Special Committees of the Convention to Report in 1945 :
(North Carolina Member.)
Baptist History: George W. Paschal, Wake Forest.
Baptist Papers: L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh.
Baptist Papers Circulation Campaign: Carl M. Townsend, Raleigh.
Boards: Mrs. J. S. Farmer, Raleigh.
Calendar of Co-ordinated Denominational Activities: None.
Centennial Session Program: None.
Commission on Chaplain's Replacements Following War: L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh.
Evangelism: Zeno Wall, Shelby.
Luther Rice Memorial: Wm. Harrison Williams, Charlotte.
Negro Ministerial Education: None.
Public Relations: None.
Radio: Carl M. Townsend, Raleigh.
Revision of Constitution and By-Laws: J. Ben Eller, Greensboro.
Statement of Principles : None.
Officers of the Woman's Missionary Union:
Organized May 14, 1888, as auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention. Head-
quarters, Birmingham, Alabama. Miss Kathleen Mallory, Executive Secretary.
North Carolina Vice President, Mrs. J. S. Farmer, Raleigh.
BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE
Headquarters: 4 Southampton Row, London W. C. I., England
First Session, London, July 10-17, 1905
Last Session, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1939
James Henry Rushbrooke, President, 4 Southampton Row, London W. C. I., England
W. O. Lewis, General Secretary, 4 Southampton Row, London W. C. I., England
Next meeting: Year and place of meeting to be determined.
CONSTITUTION
I. NAME AND OBJECT
Section 1. This body shall be known as the Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina.
The object of the Convention shall be to promote Missions, Education,
Social Service, the distribution and study of the Bible and sound religious
literature ; and to cooperate with the Southern Baptist Convention in its work.
II. MEMBERSHIP
Section 1. The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina shall be com-
posed of not more than three representatives from each white association in
the State and not more than one representative from each cooperating church
for every fifty members or fraction thereof and of the officers and members
of the General Board of the Convention and of the Life Members so declared
under the previous Constitution : Provided, that no church have more than ten
representatives and no one shall be a member of the Convention who is not a
member in good standing of a Missionary Baptist Church cooperating with the
Convention.
III. MEETINGS
Section 1. The Convention shall meet annually on Tuesday after the third
Sunday in November, except in those years when the meeting date will fall
in Thanksgiving week ; in which case the Convention shall meet annually on
Tuesday after the second Sunday in November.
IV. OFFICERS
Section 1. The officers of the Convention shall be a President, a First
Vice President, a Second Vice President, a Third Vice President, a Recording
Secretary, a General Secretary, a Treasurer (the General Secretary may be
elected as Treasurer at the discretion of the Convention), three Trustees of
the Convention, and five Directors of the North Carolina Baptist Foundation.
The President, Vice Presidents, Recording Secretary, General Secretary, and
Treasurer shall be elected as the Convention may determine, the Trustees of the
Convention and Directors of the Baptist Foundation in the manner provided
by their respective charters. The terms of office of President and Vice Presi-
dents commence at the conclusion of the session at which they are elected and
continue until the close of the next Convention.
Sec. 2. The President shall preside over the deliberations of the Convention
and discharge such other duties as are imposed upon him by the Convention or
as are incumbent on the presiding officer of a deliberative body. He shall in
advance of the meeting of the Convention appoint a committee on Enrollment
consisting of nine members, and a Committee on Committees consisting of
fifteen members. He may appoint other committees when so directed by the
body. In case of his absence or incapacity the Vice Presidents shall act in
his stead. In case of his death the Vice Presidents shall succeed to the office
in the order of their rank.
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Sec. 3. The Recording Secretary shall record and preserve the proceedings
of the Convention and have the same printed and distributed.
Sec. 4. The General Secretary of the Convention shall have administrative
supervision of the work of Missions, Education, Benevolences, and all other
general training activities of the Convention. He shall work under the direc-
tion and be subject to the authority of the General Board.
Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall receive all funds sent to him for the objects
of the Convention, make acknowledgment of the same once a month in the
Biblical Recorder or the then recognized denominational organ, give a bond to
the Trustees of the Convention in such amount as they may determine for the
faithful performance of his duties and prescribe the terms and conditions of
said bond. The Treasurer shall sign all checks, which shall be countersigned
by the General Secretary, or in case the office of Secretary and the office of
Treasurer shall be filled by one man, then checks shall be countersigned by
the bonded bookkeeper, or any other bonded officer or employee at the dis-
cretion of the Board, which shall indicate its decision and will by filing formal
resolutions with the depository bank.
He shall also forward at least once a month all contributions to their
destination ; at every meeting of the Convention he shall make a full report of
his receipts and disbursements, and upon retiring from his office, deliver to his
successor all moneys, papers, books and other property belonging thereto.
Sec. 6. The Trustees shall take and hold the title to any and all property
acquired by and belonging to the Convention. They shall require a sufficient
bond from the Treasurer. In case he shall refuse or neglect to give satisfactory
bond within thirty days after his election the Trustees shall have power to elect
a successor. The said Trustees shall elect a chairman and secretary and report
annually to the Convention the work done by them. They shall receive and
make such conveyances of the properties of the Convention as directed by the
Convention. During the interim between sessions of the Convention the said
Trustees may receive and convey the property of the Convention upon the
advice and direction of the General Board.
V. DUTIES OF COMMITTEES
Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Enrollment to provide
registration cards for messengers, and have them in a suitable place several
hours before the time set for the opening session of the Convention. This
committee shall make a report to the assembled messengers upon the call of
the President.
Sec. 2. The Committees of the Convention shall be grouped into two
categories :
(A) Those appointed to serve during the session of the Convention by
which they are appointed, and .
(B) Those appointed to report at a subsequent meeting of the Convention;
and both (A) and (B) shall be named by the Committee on Committees. Those
in group (A) shall be designated as follows:
(1) Committee to Report on General Board's Report.
(2) Committee on Place and Preacher for the next Convention.
(3) Committee on Resolutions.
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Those in group (B) shall be designated as follows:
(1) Committee on Order of Business for the subsequent Convention.
(2) Committee to Nominate Trustees of the Convention, Its Institutions
and Members of the General Board.
(3) Committee on Social Service and Civic Righteousness.
(4) The Historical Commission.
(5) Committee on Publicity.
Sec. 3. The Committee on Committees shall report to the Convention as
soon after the organization of the Convention as may be practicable.
VI. GENERAL BOARD
Section 1. The General Board of the Convention shall consist of the
President and Recording Secretary of the Convention, ex officio, and forty-
eight members from the State at large. The Convention shall elect one-third
of the members from the State at large to hold office for one year, one-third
for two years, and one-third for three years, but as the terms expire the
successors shall serve for terms of three years. That retiring members of the
Board be ineligible for reelection until the following meeting of the State
Convention. No one in the employment for pay of any Institution or Board
fostered by this Convention shall be eligible to membership on this Board,
except as an ex officio member. The General Board shall fill all vacancies in
its membership between the session of the Convention until the session of the
next Convention, when the vacancies shall be filled by the Convention itself in
the manner provided by its laws.
Sec. 2. The General Board shall have charge and control, except when
otherwis2 directed by the Convention, of all work of the Convention, including
Missions, Education, Benevolences, ' and all other general activities, in the
interim between the sessions of the Convention. Any action by the General
Board during the interim between the sessions of the Convention vitally related
to the work of the Convention shall be binding upon the Convention. Provided:
the Board shall not act upon any matter previously committed to some other
agency of the Convention ; and provided that the Board shall not launch any
new institution or enterprise until the Convention shall have considered and
approved such action; and that all actions of the Board during the interim of
the session shall be reported fully to the Convention at its next session.
Provided, further that the limitation of the powers of the General Board
herein provided shall not at any time be interpreted as prohibiting any ex-
pansion in any phase of work already established which the Board may consider
expedient, and which its income and resources may make possible.
Sec. 3. The General Board or the Executive Committee shall employ a
certified public accountant each year to make a complete audit of the books
and accounts of the treasurer and bookkeeping department and report to the
General Board, which shall receive said report and bring it in printed form
to the Convention for the Convention's consideration and action, and after
action by the Convention shall have it published in the Minutes of the Con-
vention and in the Biblical Recorder, or the then recognized denominational
organ.
Sec. 4. The General Board shall report to each session of the Convention
upon the work done in each department, viz. : Missions, Education, Benevo-
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lences and all other general activities. The Board shall have its report printed
and ready for distribution at the first session of the Convention; all reports
from Educational Institutions, Hospitals, Orphanages, Baptist Foundation, and
all other institutions or agencies of the Convention shall report to the Conven-
tion through the General Board.
Sec. 5. The General Board of the Convention shall meet in regular session
in January and June of each year, and in cases of emergency at the call of the
President and General Secretary of the Board or any five members.
Sec. 6. At the annual January meeting of the General Board, there shall
be elected the following officers who shall serve for one year, and until their
successors are elected and qualified : President, Vice President and Recording
Secretary.
At the same time the Board shall elect all Departmental Heads and such
other assistants as may from time to time be deemed necessary, and shall fix
compensation of its Secretaries and other employees, and all salaried officers
of the Convention; prozided that at any other meeting of the General Board,
or at any meeting of the Executive Committee, such other departmental heads
or assistants may be elected as may be deemed necessary, and, in case of election
by the Committee, the Committee shall have power to fix compensations up to
the next meeting of the General Board.
Sec. 7. At the January meeting of the General Board the work of the
Convention shall be divided as follows : Missions, Education, Benevolences and
Training Activities. The membership of the General Board shall be divided
into four committees of twelve each and the work as above outlined shall be
assigned to these committees. Each committee shall organize itself by the
selection of a chairman and a recording secretary. All appropriations for the
work of the various departments of the General Board shall be made by the
General Board ; but each committee shall make to the General Board definite
and specific recommendations as to all appropriations.
Sec. 8. The General Board shall elect an Executive Committee consisting
of the Chairman of the Board, ex officio, and six other members of the Board
at large, the members being chosen because of their recognized fitness and
ability to render the services to be expected of them, and with some reference
to their proximity to Raleigh, the headquarters of the Board; and that the
President of the Convention shall be ex officio member of the Executive Com-
mittee. The Executive Committee shall meet at the call of the General Sec-
retary and shall have general direction and oversight of all the work of the
General Board in the interim between the sessions of the Board and such other
matters as shall be assigned to it by the General Board.
Sec. 9. The General Board shall be successor in law to all legal obliga-
tions heretofore incurred by the Board of Missions and by the Board of
Education.
Sec. 10. At each January meeting the General Board may select such other
departmental assistants as may be needed.
- VII. TRUSTEES OF CONVENTION'S INSTITUTIONS
Section 1. The charters of all institutions owned and supported by the
Convention shall contain the following provisions as nearly as may be and
conformable to the number of trustees to be elected, that is to say;
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*a. The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina shall elect the Trustees
)f said corporation and their regular term of office shall be four years. At the
first election by the Convention one-fourth of the board of trustees shall be
elected to serve for one year, one-fourth for two years, one-fourth for three
years, and the remaining one-fourth for four years. At each subsequent reg-
ular annual session of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina one-
fourth of the members of the Board of Trustees of said corporation shall be
elected by the Convention to succeed the members of said Board retiring, the
retiring members being ineligible for reelection until one year has elapsed.
b. The members of the Board of Trustees of said corporation shall be
residents of the State of North Carolina and members in good and regular
standing of a Missionary Baptist Church cooperating with the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina.
c. Removal from the State or ceasing for any reason to be a member in
good and regular standing of a Missionary Baptist Church cooperating with
the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina shall be equivalent to a
resignation from said Board of Trustees. Any vacancy on the Board shall be
filled by the remaining members until the next regular annual session of the
Convention and the Convention shall at its next regular annual session fill the
vacancy for the unexpired term.
d. The term of office of a trustee who has not resigned, died, become dis-
qualified, or been removed shall not expire until his successor shall have been
duly elected and qualified.
e. The Board of Trustees of said corporation by the affirmative vote of
three-fourths of its entire membership given in regular annual meeting or in
a special meeting duly called for the purpose, shall have power to remove from
office any trustee of such corporation for cause considered sufficient by such
Board, but only after reasonable notice to such trustee and opportunity to him
to be heard by the Board.
f. The Baptist State Convention shall have the right at any time to remove
from office any trustee for cause considered sufficient by the Convention, but
only after reasonable notice to such trustee and opportunity for him to be
heard by the Convention. Notice of such contemplated action and hearing by
the Convention may be given by the Executive Committee of the Convention.
g. That no individual shall serve on any Board, or Institution, who is at
the same time holding membership on any other Board or Institution.
Sec. 2. The Trustees of all institutions, benevolent, educational, or other-
wise under the control of the Convention shall be elected by the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina and shall hold office for the term to which
elected, unless sooner terminated. When any vacancy shall occur in any Board
of any institution a nominating committee elected by the Convention shall
nominate to the Convention Baptists to fill such vacancy. The Trustees of all
institutions owned and supported by the Convention shall make annual report
to the nominating committee of any vacancies. Each Board shall have the right
to make any suggestion to the nominating committee it may see fit regarding
such nominations, and all nominations made by the committee shall be passed
upon by the Convention. The Convention shall have the right to adopt the
* Amendment adopted 1944 Convention. See Sec. 73 page 48.
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report of the nominating committee and elect the trustees thus nominated, or
to substitute the name of other trustee or trustees in lieu thereof, or recommit
said report for further consideration as the case may be.
VIII. GENERAL ITEMS
Section 1. Individuals, churches, and associations, or others desiring the
assistance and cooperation of the Baptists of the State in any work not already
fostered by the Convention should present the question to the agency under
which is should be properly placed. If the agency should refuse to take it up,
it may be presented to the Convention under miscellaneous business or a special
order.
Sec. 2. The members of the Boards of the Convention and Institutions
affiliated with the Convention shall be distributed as widely as practicable, both
as to territory and individuals.
Sec. 3. The Convention year shall close December 31 of each year.
Sec. 4. No institution or agency affiliating with the Convention shall en-
cumber its property or change its status with respect to the Convention without
authority of the Convention or its General Board.
That except as may be necessary in the reasonable anticipation of current
revenues and payable out of the same, or for the purpose of funding or
refinancing any indebtedness of the Convention now outstanding, neither the
Convention or its General Board shall have the power to create any debt or
obligation binding on the Convention ; and no other board, agency or institu-
tion of, or affiliated with the Convention, shall have the power at any time to
create any debt or obligation binding on the Convention.
Sec. 5. If for any reason, it shall be necessary to select a place or to
change the time or place of the meeting of the Convention after the Convention
adjourns, the President, Recording Secretary and the General Secretary of the
Convention shall be a committee with power to make necessary change or
changes.
Sec. 6. Any and all resolutions presented to the Convention shall be
referred to the Committee on Resolutions, except that by a two-thirds vote of
the messengers then present the rules may be suspended and a resolution placed
upon its immediate consideration.
Sec. 7. This constitution may be changed or amended on any day of any
annual session of the Convention by two-thirds vote of the members present
when the vote is taken, provided notice of the contemplated amendment or
change shall 'have been announced on a previous day of the Convention.
RULES FOR OPERATION OF THE GENERAL BOARD
I. THE PRESIDENT AND RECORDING SECRETARY
The President of the General Board, in addition to the regular duties in-
cumbent upon such officers, shall appoint special committees to investigate and
report upon any matters which concern equally all departments of the work
of the' Convention. The Secretary shall record all proceedings in correct form
and preserve the same.
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II. QUORUM
Seventeen members shall be required to constitute a quorum of the Board.
Five shall be required to constitute a quorum of any department. Four shall
constitute a quorum of the Executive Committee of the General Board.
III. THE WORK OF THE GENERAL BOARD
The work of the General Board shall be apportioned among its four divi-
sions, in so far as may be practicable, as indicated below. The General Board,
the Executive Committee of the General Board and the General Secretary (48
members exclusive of the President and Secretary of the Convention, who are
ex officio members) :
1. Committee on Missions — (12) — Division of (1) Field Work; (2) Evan-
gelism; (3) Negro Work.
2. Committee on Training Activities — (12) — Division of (1) Sunday schools
— Secretary; (2) B.Y.P.U. — Secretary; (3) Student Activities.
3. Committee on Benevolences — (12) — Division of (1) Orphanage; (2)
Hospital; (3) Ministers' Relief.
4. Committee on Education — (12) — Division of (1) Educational Institu-
tion; (2) Ministerial Education.
5. Department of Woman's Missionary Union.
The Executive Committee shall have power in its discretion, to modify,
enlarge, diminish, or otherwise alter the divisions of the work of the Board
as it may from time to time deem advisable or necessary, the changes so made
to be reported to the next regular meeting of the General Board for its
consideration.
IV. UNDESIGNATED GIFTS
The General Board at its annual meeting shall determine the percentage
of undesignated gifts that each object of the Convention shall receive, includ-
ing State and South-wide, provided always that any allocation of such funds
shall not violate any order with respect to the same previously made by the
Baptist Convention.
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The Executive Committee shall have power to borrow money and execute
notes on behalf of the General Board for the purpose of meeting the obligations
of said Board, and to do and perform any act incidental or necessary in the
execution and discharge of the work of the General Board : Provided, the
Executive Committee shall not incur obligations for any object in excess of the
budget fixed by the General Board. Notes may be executed in the name
of the General Board and on its behalf by the Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee attested by the General Secretary, and when so executed by authority
of the Executive Committee duly given, shall be the binding obligation of the
General Board.
The Executive Committee of the General Board shall meet upon the call
of the General Secretary, or any four members. If practicable, at least one
meeting shall be held each month.
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VI. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
His duties, together with all other Departmental Heads, or Assistants, shall
be determined from time to time by the General Board.
VII. EXECUTIVE SESSION
The General Board may by a majority vote of the number present, go into
executive session at any time for the purpose of considering such matters as
may claim the consideration of said Board.
VIII. AMENDMENTS
These by-laws may be amended at any regular meeting by a majority vote
of the members attending said meeting.
IX. PUBLICATION
These by-laws, together with any amendments that may be made thereon,
from time to time, shall be printed in the Minutes of the Baptist State
Convention.
PROCEEDINGS
PROCEEDINGS
TUESDAY MORNING, November 16, 1944
1. Promptly at 10:00 o'clock, A.M. in the First Baptist Church, Charlotte,
Ralph A. Herring, President, called the One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Ses-
sion of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention to order and requested
H. Grady Miller, Winston-Salem, Director of Music for the Convention, to
lead the assembled delegates in the singing of "Come Thou Fount." Miss Mary
Currin, Raleigh, accompanied at the piano.
2. A. D. Kinnett, Burlington, offered the opening prayer after the singing
of "O, For a Thousand Tongues."
3. The official enrollment of the delegates being the next order of business,
the President released the following names to compose the Committee on En-
rollment : A. B. Wood, Chairman, J. C. Yates, Mrs. B. Carroll Taylor, John
R. Knott, Mrs. R. K. Redwine, L. M. Dixon, E. S. Summers, W. W. Lawton,
and Mrs. A. S. Bumgardner.
4. In announcing the present registration at 698, the motion of Chairman
Wood of the Committee carried, that the present enrolled messengers and all
other messengers who arrive during the remaining sessions and upon their
registration, constitute the Convention for the transaction of the Order of
Business.
5. The organization of the Convention was perfected in the election of the
following officers upon the motion of W. B. Carr, Mooresville :
General Secretary and Treasurer M. A. Huggins, Raleigh
Recording Secretary C. B. Deane, Rockingham
Statistical Secretary L. L. Morgan, Raleigh
6. President Herring announced the following names to compose the Com-
mittee on Committees: R. K. Redwine, J. B. Turner, Miss Mabel Starnes, Mrs.
Norfleet Gardner, J. P. Davis, Earl Robinson, Tom Lawrence, C. N. Royall,
J. R. Morgan, Horace Easom, J. B. Grice, Miss Ila Hensley, J. B. Efird, H.
W. Baucom, Jr., and Mrs. Gordon Maddrey.
7. The Committee on Order of Business, consisting of B. E. Morris, W. F.
West, C. E. Baucom, A. C. Reid, A. P. Stephens, Eph Whisenhunt, A. B.
Wood, Mrs. Carl M. Townsend and Miss Wynona Chaney, released the Order
of Business for the Convention and upon the motion of B. E. Morris, Chair-
man, it was approved.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
General Theme : The Mission of the Church in the World Today
Tuesday Morning, November 14, 1944
(opening session)
10 :00 Praise and Prayer
10:10 Enrollment and Organization
10:20 Report of Committee on Order of Business B. E. Morris, Durham
Appointment of Committees
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10:35 Presentation of Charlotte Pastors, New Pastors, and Visitors
10 :50 Presentation of Reports E. N. Gardner, Henderson
11:50 Miscellaneous and Music
12 :00 Convention Sermon Sankey L. Blanton, Wilmington
Alternate R. Knolan Benfield, Hickory
Tuesday Afternoon
(christian literature session)
2 :30 Praise and Prayer
2:35 Relief and Annuity Board E. N. Gardner, Henderson, Presiding
3 :00 Scripture, Prayer and Music J. B. Turner, Laurinburg
3 :10 Woman's Missionary Union Mrs. J. S. Farmer, Raleigh
3 :45 Sunday School Board B. A. Bowers, Ridgecrest, Presiding
(1) Report
(2) Address John L. Hill, Nashville, Tenn.
Tuesday Evening
(foreign mission session)
7 :30 Praise and Prayer
7 :40 American Bible Society
7:55 Truett Memorial
00 Biblical Recorder E. I. Olive, Wake Forest
30 Scripture, Prayer and Music Donald G. Myers, Wadesboro
40 Foreign Missions Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem, Presiding
(1) Report and Presentation of Missionaries
(2) Address
Wednesday Morning, November 15
(state mission session)
9 :30 Praise and Prayer
9 :40 Reports of Committees
9:50 Orphanage Zeno Wall, Shelby
10 :20 State Missions Secretary M. A. Huggins, Raleigh
11 :20 Scripture, Prayer and Music J. Samuel Johnson, Durham
11 :30 Cooperative Program Carey P. Herring, Fairmont
12:00 "The Imperative Call for Militant Evangelism"
Casper C. Warren, Charlotte
Wednesday Afternoon
(christian education session)
2 :30 Praise and Prayer
2:40 Reports of Committees
2 :45 Reports of Seminaries
3 :00 "The Training of Ministers and Church Workers"
Fred C. Schatz, New Orleans, La.
3 :30 Report of Committee on Constitutional Changes
Wm. Harrison Williams, Charlotte
3 :40 Reports of the Colleges and the Education Council
Claude F. Gaddy, Raleigh
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Wednesday Evening
(social, civic and world service session)
7 :30 Praise and Prayer
7 :40 Report of Historical Commission
7 :45 Report of Trustees of Convention
7:50 Reports of Committees
(1) Committee to Nominate Members of General Board, Institutions,
and Agencies of Convention
(2) Publicity
(3) Place and Preacher
(4) Report on General Board's Report
(5) Radio and Music
8 :00 "The Men in Our Churches"
( 1 ) Report C. R. Browning, Jr., Asheville
(2) Address L. A. Martin, Lexington
8:30 Report of Committee on Social Service and Civic Righteousness
A. D. Kinnett, Burlington
8 :45 Address Robert L. Humber, Greenville
Thursday Morning, November 16
(closing session)
9 :30 Praise and Prayer
9:40 Reports of Committees, Resolutions and Miscellaneous
9 :45 Reading of the Journal
9 :50 Baptist Hospital J. S. Lynch, Winston-Salem
10 :20 Scripture, Prayer and Music J. Louis Price, Hickory
10 :30 Baptist Foundation T. S. Johnson, Raleigh
10:45 Election of Officers
11 :00 Home Missions R. K. Redwine, Mount Airy, Presiding
(1) Report
(2) "City Missions in the Centennial Crusade"
S. F. Dowis, Atlanta, Ga.
11 :30 "Evangelism as Preparation for a Post-War World"
M. E. Dodd, Shreveport, La.
Adjourn
8. Casper C. Warren, Pastor of the Host Church, was recognized, and
brought greetings in behalf of the Convention Church and the other Baptist
churches of the city. He was followed by Willis G. Clark, rector of St.
Peter's Episcopal Church, Charlotte, who extended greetings on behalf of the
Mecklenburg Ministerial Association.
9. The President spoke words of welcome to all visitors present and to
others who may visit any of the Convention's sessions (see page 64). Upon his
request, the following past presidents of the Convention arose and were recog-
nized : C. H. Durham, Lumberton ; J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro ; Zeno Wall,
Shelby ; I. G. Greer, Thomasville ; R. N. Simms, Raleigh ; and Wm. Harrison
Williams, Charlotte. President Herring called attention to the presence of
the following-named Royal Ambassadors, who because of their excellence in
R.A. work, had been selected by the Woman's Missionary Union to act as
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Convention pages : Dwight Wilhelm, Albermale ; Edward Elliott, Cherryville ;
Milton Snyder, Hickory ; Bobby Hanes, Charlotte ; and Carson Perry, Sher-
wood.
10. Attention was directed to the presence at this opening session of L. R.
Pruette, Charlotte, who for these many years has been an active servant of
the Convention.
11. All the Baptist ministers of Charlotte and the Mecklenburg Association
were asked to come forward and be recognized by the Convention.
12. All new pastors coming into the State during the year were invited to
the front and were presented by General Secretary Huggins and welcomed by
President Herring, viz. :
New Pastors Recognized
Jack T. Akin, Monroe ; V. Ward Barr, Gastonia ; Claude U. Broach,
Charlotte; W. Herbert Brown, Bryson City; David E. Browning, North
Wilkesboro; J. V. Case, Rose Hill; B. A. Davis, Kannapolis; L. G.
Elliott, Waynesville ; Bertis Fair, Newton; Fletcher Ford, Severn; Hen-
derson S. Fox, Charlotte ; R. M. Hagler, Caroleen ; Richard E. Hard-
away, Greenville ; J. C. R. Hendon, Mooresville ; W. F. Hinesley,
Gastonia ; L. D. Holt, Bethel ; John Wesley Lambert, Mount Olive ;
Sanford L. Lamm, Avondale ; O. D. Moore, Cliffside; R. E. Moore, Rural
Hall; M. O. Owens, Jr., Marion; W. M. Page, Fuquay Springs; R. E.
Rice, Burlington ; Henry C. Rogers, Lincolnton ; W. C. Sledge, Lowell ;
C. S. Smith, White Oak; C. C. Warren, Charlotte; C. M. Warren,
Sylva ; W. Gordon Wilson, Marion; L. M. Woolweaver, Rocky Mount.
13. The Advance Report of the General Board (see Section 85, page 69)
was the next order presided over by Board President E. Norfleet Gardner,
Henderson, and after his introductory remarks, he called upon M. A. Huggins,
General Secretary, to take charge of the presentation. This he did, calling
especial attention to the year 1945 and the desired goals. The Convention
viewed with thankful hearts the splendid accomplishments of the churches and
their splendid support of Convention objects, but the need of a greater spiritual
awakening was emphasized.
At the close of the General Secretary's remarks the report itself and the
recommendations appearing at the end of the report were referred to the Com-
mittee to Report on the General Board's Report.
14. Of special significance at this period was the burning by the General
Secretary, assisted by J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro, of the last paid notes
totaling $825,000.00 of the old Convention indebtedness. The General Sec-
retary pointed out that in 1923 when Pastor Turner was the Convention's
President and at which time the Convention elected him, this indebtedness
totaled $1,000,000.00 and that it was the hope of the Convention to pay up these
notes now being burned by 1945, but in view of increased gifts by the churches
this happy experience could be enjoyed by the Convention now.
15. Chairman Wood of the Enrollment Committee announced that the total
registration had reached 951, of which 859 were delegates and 92 visitors.
16. The President expressed a desire that the Convention Sermon, soon to
follow, should close this first session, and it was so ordered upon motion by
Nane Starnes, Asheville.
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17. After the congregational singing of "Revive Us Again," Jack Aiken,
Monroe, sang a solo.
18. Sankey L. Blanton, Wilmington, preached the Convention Sermon, using
as his subject "Saltiness," from the text Matthew 5:13. The scriptural mes-
sage which included the text was read prior to the sermon by R. K. Benfield,
Hickory.
TUESDAY— Afternoon Session
19. This session centered around Christian Literature and was opened with
the singing of "We're Marching to Zion." L. R. Pruette, Charlotte, prayed.
20. E. N. Gardner, Henderson, State representative of the Relief and
Annuity Board, presided during the discussion of the Board's Report (see Sec-
tion 112, page 121). The Executive Secretary, Thomas J. Watts, Dallas, Texas,
brought the special message.
21. President Herring recognized Navy Chaplain Percy Upchurch, formerly
of Monroe, who in turn outlined the urgent need for more Baptist Navy
Chaplains.
Song: "My Jesus, I Love Thee."
22. The special scripture and prayer service was offered by James B. Turner,
Laurinburg.
23. Mrs. J. S. Farmer, Raleigh, President of the State Woman's Missionary
Union, presided during the consideration of the W.M.U. Report. She urged
a careful reading of the report which follows and it was adopted upon her
motion, following the special address by John A. Mackay, President of Prince-
ton Seminary. His subject centered around the Challenge of Latin America
to Evangelical Religion.
REPORT OF THE WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Your Auxiliary, the Woman's Missionary Union, is happy to bring
you a report of another year of joyful service as "Laborers Together
with God."
Financially 1943 was the best year we have ever had. Miss Ora
Alford, treasurer, reports the grand total of $470,769.42. During the
first three quarters of 1944 we have brought tithes and offerings amount-
ing to $360,995.17. There has been a gratifying increase in the number of
tithers reported and in the number of churches reporting a gift to missions
from every resident woman member. Mrs. Chas. E. Stephenson resigned
as Stewardship Chairman after three years of very efficient service ; Mrs.
M. A. Huggins was elected to this important office for which she had
already proved her fitness in Associational and Divisional service.
Mission Study, under the direction of Mrs. J. Clyde Turner, has
aroused unusual enthusiasm in these days of world-wide vision and in-
terest. Mrs. G. K. Middleton has continued to emphasize the study of
God's Word as the best preparation for Community Missions.
The Training School, with Mrs. R. K. Redwine as our State Trustee,
holds a large place in the hearts of our union, and we have a large group
of choice young women studying there. Miss Daphne Penny, of the
Tabernacle Church in Raleigh, was awarded the Edna R. Harris Scholar-
ship for this year.
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The Margaret Fund Chairman, Mrs. L. R. Harrill, reports sons and
daughters of missionaries, home and foreign, studying in Mars Hill, Mer-
edith, and Wake Forest Colleges. These children in addition to a $250
scholarship are given $30 a year for extras, and are cheered by letters
from our chairman. She also keeps in touch with their parents.
Mrs. Z. M. Caviness reports substantial gifts of linen and money for
the Baptist Hospital from many associations. Interest in White Cross
work is increasing.
Mrs. L. E. M. Freeman is leading in a very constructive way in Inter-
racial work. The three Interracial Institutes held during the summer of
1944 were excellent. There are unanimous requests that these Institutes
be continued, the colored friends pledging financial help to make them
possible.
Miss Kathryn Abee, Young People's Secretary, and Mr. A. T.
Greene, Jr., who divides his time between our state and South Carolina
as Royal Ambassador Secretary, have led our young people in splendid
fashion. The summer camps and House Parties have grown to such pro-
portions that finding camping places presents a real problem. The South-
wide meetings at Ridgecrest were largely attended by our North Carolina
young folk.
Miss Ruth Keller, chosen as Field Worker since our last report to you,
is doing a magnificent work. So far she has been mostly in the Western
part of the state. North Carolina is a big state for only one field worker
to cover.
Miss Mary Currin, Executive Secretary, arranged a schedule of Divi-
sional and Associational Meetings so that they were held in succession in
time and place, thus saving expense, time, travel, and strength. She
worked with the superintendents in arranging unusually good programs.
Despite difficulties of travel, the Associational and Divisional Meetings,
the Council Meeting and the annual meeting in Charlotte were eminently
satisfactory.
We are indebted to many out-of-the-state speakers who have helped
us in various meetings during the year. Dr. H. H. MacMillan, Mr. Jacob
Gartenhaus, Miss Sophie Lanneau, Dr. and Mrs. D. F. Stamps, Dr. O. T.
Binkley, Miss Rose Marlowe, Mrs. Rosalee Mills Appleby, Miss Pearle
Johnson, Miss Martha Franks, Miss Inabelle Coleman, Miss Juliette
Mather, Miss Kathleen Mallory.
As we face the centennial year we pledge to you our best endeavor in
meeting our share of the high goals being set. We feel as did a Home
Missionary concluding his report to the Board long ago, "Seeing how the
Lord hath prospered us it becomes us to prudently and prayerfully press
forward." The watchwords for 1945 present to us a high goal and com-
pelling purpose : t
"For we are laborers together with God" "having the everlasting
gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation
and kindred and tongue and people."
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. J. S. Farmer.
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Song : "O Zion Haste."
24. During the discussion of the Sunday School Board, B. A. Bowers,
Ridgecrest, the Board's N. C. State member, presided, and upon his motion,
the report which follows was adopted after a special address by John L. Hill,
Nashville, who used as his theme "The Place of Baptist Literature in a Post-
War Mission Program."
REPORT SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD
The Sunday School Board has done its best during these trying years
of war; the literature has been kept at a high standard, at the same time
the Board has met all government requirements and thus they are doing
their part to bring to a successful conclusion this terrible conflict.
The Sunday School Board has large plans for our Centennial Crusade.
On March 6, 1945, there will be simultaneous meetings in every Asso-
ciation in the South. They are asking Southern Baptists to organize
10,000 new Sunday Schools, to conduct 10,000 Vacation Bible Schools,
and to have 10,000 or more study courses. Through this enlarged pro-
gram we will be able to win thousands to Christ.
September 10-14, 1945, is set apart for Better Bible Teachers Clinics.
These will be arranged to suit various communities.
It is the plan of the Board to make all of their publications Biblical
and of the highest service to our churches. The 1945 program for Ridge-
crest is already in the making and gives promise of being the best we
have had.
Respectfully submitted,
Bartlett A. Bowers.
25. At this hour and at other times during the session R. K. Redwine,
Hickory, as Chairman of the Committee on Committees, released the following
Committees :
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Committees to Report During 1944 Convention
Committee to Report on the Report of the General Board:
Tom P. Pruitt, Hickory, Chairman; H. G. Anderson, Durham; Guy S.
Cain, Graham; Lee C. Sheppard, Raleigh; J. M. Hayes, Winston- Salem ;
G. C. Cox, Asheville ; Garland A. Hendricks, Apex ; R. R. Jackson, High
Point; John T. Coley, Rocky Mount; Mrs. E. B. Gentry, Charlotte; Mrs.
Rush Stroupe, Shelby ; Phil L. Elliott, Boiling Springs ; Zeb A. Caudle,
Lenoir ; Perry Morgan, Ridgecrest.
Committee on Resolutions:
Eugene Olive, Wake Forest, Chairman; M. O. Alexander, Beaufort ; Das
Kelly Barnett, Chapel Hill ; W. Wilbur Hutchins, High Point ; R. E. Brick-
house, Warrenton; Mrs. J. Gray Murray, Cary; Miss Kathryn Bates, Char-
lotte; Mrs. R. T. Howerton, Jr., Raleigh; J. Boyce Brooks, Roxboro.
Place and Preacher:
Claude F. Gaddy, Raleigh, Chairman; Edwin F. Perry, Rockingham ; R. A.
Ellis, Salisbury; J. C. Canipe, Boone; Avery M. Church, Winston-Salem;
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Fon H. Scofield, Wake Forest; J. Marshall Walker, Stovall ; A. J. Smith,
Goldsboro ; J. E. Kirk, Lewisville.
Committees to Report During 1945 Convention
Publicity:
L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh, Chairman; C. Sylvester Green, Durham; Miss
Martha Ann Allen, Garner ; C. R. Austin, Charlotte ; Santford Martin,
Winston-Salem; R. E. Price, Rutherfordton ; Herbert Peele, Elizabeth City;
J. A. McMillan, Thomasville ; C. B. Deane, Rockingham.
Music:
Horace B. Easom, Shelby, Chairman; A. E. Lynch, Buie's Creek ; L. C.
Pinnix, Kings Mountain ; H. Grady Miller, Winston-Salem ; C. S. Hodge,
Greensboro ; Miss Mildred Thomas, Durham ; Mrs. Alice Berman, Charlotte.
Historical Commission:
G. W. Paschal, Wake Forest, Chairman; J. W. Whitley, Albemarle; Mrs.
E. T. Crittenden, Wake Forest ; Thad F. Deitz, Sylva ; L. R. Pruitt, Char-
lotte ; B. W. Spilman, Kinston ; L. E. M. Freeman, Raleigh ; Miss Flossie
Martin, Winston-Salem ; Willis G. Briggs, Raleigh ; Mrs. J. A. Yarbrough,
Charlotte, Dr. R. L. Moore, Mars Hill.
Committee on Order of Business:
Casper C. Warren, Charlotte, Chairman; Owen F. Herring, Durham; C. L.
Gillespie, Smithfield ; John McGinnis, Reidsville; M. H. Kendall, Mars
Hill; G. Carl. Lewis, Wilmington; Jack A. Neilson, Thomasville; Mrs. W.
W. Jones, Kannapolis ; Mrs. Loula Mae Teague, Burlington.
Committee to Nominate Trustees of the Convention, Its Institutions and
Members of the General Board:
J. Winston Pearce, Durham, Chairman; H. W. Baucom, Sr., Black Moun-
tain ; Howard G. Dawkins, Hertford ; Walter L. Warfford, Carthage ;
Yancey C. Elliott, Sanford; W. W. Finlator, Weldon ; F. Orion Mixon,
Raleigh; L. L. Hatfield, Hickory; George J. Griffin, Zebulon; James W.
Ray, Spindale ; Tom E. Walters, Ridgecrest ; Mrs. Hubert Craig, Lincoln-
ton ; Miss Mary Humphrey, Asheville; Mrs. O. R. Mangum, Lenoir.
Social Service and Civic Righteousness:
George D. Heaton, Charlotte, Chairman; I. G. Greer, Thomasville; E. Nor-
fleet Gardner, Henderson ; Donald G. Myers, Wadesboro ; L. A. Martin,
Lexington; S. Lewis Morgan, Jr., Dunn; C. E. Otey, Mount Airy; Carl
L. Ousley, Siler City; Clyde W. Glosson, Kernersville ; O. M. Seigler,
Hendersonville ; Miss Mary Currin, Raleigh ; J. Ben Eller, Greensboro ;
J. A. Easley, Wake Forest; Mrs. Perry Crouch, Asheville ; Miss Madge
Lewis, Waynesville.
Radio:
Carl M. Townsend, Raleigh, Chairman; Harvey T. Gibson, Raleigh; Mrs.
Glenn Lassiter, Raleigh ; W. Perry Crouch, Asheville ; George D. Heaton,
Charlotte ; L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh ; C. E. Parker, Winston-Salem ; Wilson
Woodcock, Greensboro.
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Members at Large for Council of Christian Education:
Mrs. Mary Susan Steele Smith, Wagram ; Mrs. Egbert Davis, Sr., Winston-
Salem ; J. J. Tarlton, Rutherfordton; T. P. Pruitt, Hickory; R. S. Dickson,
Charlotte ; A. Paul Bagby, Louisburg ; Edwin F. Perry, Rockingham.
Nominees Representing North Carolina Baptist State Convention for Mem-
bership on Board of Trustees for Allied Church League:
R. E. Price, Rutherfordton ; T. P. Pruitt, Hickory ; E. B. Goodin, Lincoln-
ton ; L. L. Hatfield, Hickory; R. C. Foster, Leaksville ; Grover H. Jones,
High Point; L. E. Andrews, Lexington; J. H. Early, Winston-Salem; J. G.
Pritchard, Windsor ; V. M. Dorsett, Siler City ; T. E. Story, North Wilkes-
boro ; Johnson J. Hayes, Wilkesboro ; LeRoy Martin, Raleigh; R. S. Averett,
Winston-Salem ; Carey B. Taylor, Winston-Salem ; Santford Martin, Win-
ston-Salem ; E. Yates Webb, Shelby ; E. C. Roach, Kannapolis ; F. H.
Brooks, Smithfield ; A. Lincoln Fulk, Washington ; B. A. Bowers, Ridge-
crest ; M. Leslie Davis, Beaufort; Sankey L. Blanton, Wilmington; Harry
B. Caldwell, Greensboro ; C. H. Durham, Lumberton ; John A. Oates, Fay-
etteville; Clarence Poe, Raleigh; I. G. Greer, Thomasville ; J. A. McMillan,
Thomasviile ; L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh ; M. A. Huggins, Raleigh ; B. M.
Covington, Wadesboro ; A. Paul Bagby, Louisburg ; C. B. Deane, Rocking-
ham; E. N. Johnson, Fair Bluff; M. L. Banister, Oxford; Walt N. John-
son, Salisbury; E. F. Sullivan, Hickory; James M. Hayes, Winston-Salem;
J. Y. Joyner, La Grange ; Don C. Young, Asheville ; W. H. Weatherspoon,
Raleigh; J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro; M. M. Jernigan, Dunn; H. B.
Anderson, Durham; Theo B. Davis, Zebulon ; L. R. Varser, Lumberton;
E. N. Gardner, Henderson ; Mrs. T. H. Plemmons, Charlotte ; Mrs. W. E.
Goode, Scotland Neck; Miss Alma Moose, Charlotte; Mrs. T. L. Cashwell,
Gastonia ; W. B. Carr, Mooresville ; H. K. Masteller, Asheboro ; Wm. Har-
rison Williams, Charlotte.
26. The afternoon's session adjourned following prayer by Wilson Wood-
cock, Greensboro.
TUESDAY— Evening Session
27. This session centered on Foreign Missions. Special recognition was
given to the following North Carolina Missionaries, detained at home, because
of the emergency of war :
Miss Attie T. Bostick, Pachow, China; L. Bun Olive, Chinkiang,
China; Arthur S. Gillespie, Kaifing, Honan, China; J. C. Powell, Shaki
Nigeria, Africa; Mrs. J. C. Powell, Shaki Nigeria, Africa; Mrs. T. Neil
Johnson, University of Shanghai, China ; L. E. Blackman, Hawaii ; P.
W. Hamlett, Wisih, China; Mrs. P. W. Hamlett, Wisih, China; W. W.
Lawton, Jr., Kaifing, Honan, China ; Mrs. W. W. Lawton, Jr., Kaifing,
Honan, China.
28. After the singing of "Jesus Shall Reign" and 'When I Survey the
Wondrous Cross," I. T. Newton, Whiteville, offered prayer, and was fol-
lowed by the singing of "Jesus Calls Us."
29. By order of the Convention, it was agreed that the Order of Business
be changed to consider the Truett Memorial, American Bible Society, and the
Baptist Bible Institute at this time.
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30. In behalf of the Memorial to honor the late George W. Truett the fol-
lowing motion signed by several pastors was presented by W. Perry Crouch,
Asheville, and upon his motion adopted.
A MOTION
Since Dr. George W. Truett, late Pastor of First Baptist Church of
Dallas, Texas, past President of the Southern Baptist Convention, and
of the Baptist World Alliance, and Prince of Baptist Preachers, was
born in North Carolina ; and
Since a movement has been launched to establish a fitting and lasting
memorial to Dr. Truett in the form of an Administration-Library-Chapel
building on the campus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary,
with which Dr. Truett was connected for so many years as member of
and chairman of the Board of Trustees ; and
In view of the great need for such building on the campus of the
Southwestern Seminary where facilities are completely inadequate for the
present large student body,
We petition the Baptist State Convention to endorse this movement to
the churches and friends of Dr. Truett in North Carolina and urge them
to have a part in this worthy movement.
31. I. Stuart McElroy, District Secretary of the American Bible Society,
Richmond, Virginia, spoke on the wide range of work now promoted by the
Society and expressed sincere gratitude to North Carolina Baptists for their
loyal support. The work of the Society was strongly endorsed by the Con-
vention.
32. The Convention approved the following motion submitted by Wilson
Woodcock, Greensboro, in the interest of the Baptist Bible Institute :
MOTION ON BAPTIST BIBLE INSTITUTE
Since the Southern Baptist Convention has authorized the Baptist
Bible Institute to go into the field for $200,000.00 with which to erect a
men's dormitory and a library building, which will be the first buildings to
be erected at the institution in its history ; and
Because there is now no adequate facilities for the housing of men
students, making it necessary every year to refuse admittance to many ;
and
Because of the great record of the Institute in ministering to neg-
lected people of that section, I move that this Convention look with favor
upon the effort to raise $10,000.00 in North Carolina for this $200,000.00
building fund and that the churches be requested to put this object in
their budgets or take special collections for it during 1945.
33. Eugene I. Olive, Wake Forest, Chairman, read the report of the Board
of Directors of Biblical Recorder, and upon his motion the report was adopted,
following a discussion by Editor L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh, who called attention
to the special service of Chairman Olive whose term of office expires with
this Convention.
REPORT OF DIRECTORS OF BIBLI.CAL RECORDER,
INCORPORATED
The Directors of Biblical Recorder, Incorporated, submit herewith to
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the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina their report for the year
ended September 30, 1944.
Two meetings of the Directors have been held. The first was on
January 18, 1944. At this time matters of business transacted included
organization of the Board, election of an executive committee, revision
of the printing contract and salary schedules, and the discussion of other
items concerned with the publication of the paper.
The second meeting was held on October 17, 1944, for the purpose of
reviewing the year's record, receiving and examining the reports of the
Business Manager and the Auditors, and adopting this report to the
Convention.
The Directors noted with satisfaction and desire to call to the Con-
vention's attention the fact that there has been a steady increase in the
Biblical Recorder's circulation and income, as may be seen from the
following statements :
Circulation Clubs
September 30, 1943 18,447 September 30, 1943 931
December 31, 1943 21,379 December 31, 1943 1,011
March 31, 1944 25,243 March 31, 1944 1,050
June 30, 1944 26,193 June 30, 1944 1,043
July 31, 1944 26,433 July 31, 1944 1,047
August 31, 1944 26,689 August 31, 1944 1,033
September 30, 1944 26,874 September 30, 1944 1,042
Net gain for year 8,427
Classification of Circulation
As of October 12, 1944
Individuals @ $2.00 1,047
Pastors (Convention list) @ $1.50 1,093
Every-Family Plan @ $1.20 9,977
Club Plan @ $1.50 14,949 27,066
Complimentaries 175
Total circulation, October 12, 1944 27,241
Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements
12 Months Ended September 30, 1944
Receipts :
Advertising $ 3,921.70
Circulation 36,686.62
Sale of Cuts 231.44
Unremitted Withholding Tax Deducted
from Employees' Pay 125.22
Miscellaneous 15.90
Baptist State Convention 3,300.00
Total receipts $44,280.88
Bank balance September 30, 1943 138.55
Total receipts and bank balance $44,419.43
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Disbursements :
To Increase Postage Deposit $ 25.00
Advertising 344.07
Insurance 55.32
Miscellaneous 324.89
News Correspondents 46.00
Office Expense 462.84
Postage 2,123.88
Printing Contract 18,845.21
Print Paper Purchased 7,660.83
Rent 799.20
Retirement Annuity 334.80
Salaries 12,079.76
Stationery 25.95
Telephone 150.76
Travel 403.23
Furniture and Fixtures Purchased. . . . 216.34
Drayage, Demurrage and
Packing Paper 173.59
Unremitted Withholding Tax Septem-
ber 30, 1943, Remitted to Collec-
tor this Period 258.30
Total disbursements $44,329.97
Cash and bank balance September 30,
1944 89.46
The foregoing financial statement is a part of the audit made by
A. T. Allen & Company, Certified Public Accountants. From their
comments we quote the following:
"We found the books in balance and excellently kept. Trial
balances and financial and operating statements are being regu-
larly prepared.
"Our examination did not disclose any evidence of irregulari-
ties and we believe the funds have been carefully and honestly
handled and all accounted for.
"We hereby certify that, we have audited the books and records
of the Biblical Recorder, Incorporated, Raleigh, North Carolina,
for the twelve months ended September 30, 1944, and prepared
the within statement. In our opinion the correct financial con-
dition of the business is shown, together with the result of opera-
tions for the twelve months ended September 30, 1944."
Attention is called to the fact that the total amount received from the
Convention funds is $3,300.00, as compared with $7,200.00 during the year
ended September 30, 1943, and as compared with $12,098.96 during the
year ended September 30, 1942. This saving to the Convention has been
made possible by the Biblical Recorder's enlarged income from circula-
tion, in spite of the fact that costs of printing have risen. Additional
expenses have been incurred also for salary increases and for the employ-
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ment of extra office help needed to do the work involved as a result of
the large circulation. We respectfully request the Convention to provide
an amount not to exceed $5,000.00 to be used as and if it is needed to help
defray the expenses of publication during the next year.
Readers of the Biblical Recorder are aware of the quality of its work-
manship and contents. The change in format, type, and size was made
necessary because of governmental limitations on the amount of print
paper available. As soon as these limitations are removed, the appear-
ance and size of the paper will be restored to its former status.
The Directors desire to express to the Convention their appreciation
of the efficient work which has been done by Dr. Carpenter and the mem-
bers of the office staff and by the Bynum Printing Company in keeping
the Biblical Recorder going regularly to its growing constituency. From
the report of the editor we learn that he has filled Sunday engagements
during the year in approximately forty churches, assisted in two Sunday
School Training weeks, held one revival, and attended twenty-six asso-
ciations ; and in addition has had many other special engagements. The
Directors wish to commend the Editor, the General Secretary of the
Convention and members of his staff, numerous pastors and other work-
ers in the churches for their excellent service in enabling the Recorder
to extend its ministry to such a large number of people. At the same
time, they would remind the Convention that the paper is still reaching
only approximately twenty-five per cent of the membership of our churches.
The Directors, therefore, call upon pastors, denominational workers,
and local church officers to assist in every proper way to extend the use-
fulness of the Recorder to all the members of the churches.
Respectfully submitted,
Eugene Olive, Chairman
Lee C. Sheppard, Secretary
34. The remainder of the evening program was devoted to Foreign Missions.
Donald E. Myers, Wadesboro, read the scripture and offered prayer. The
audience next sang the special arrangement of the song "Onward Baptist
Comrades."
A young ladies sextet from Wingate Junior College, accompanied and
directed by Miss Dina Dominguez, sang "The Lord's Prayer."
Ralph A. Herring, Winston-Salem, State member of the Foreign Mission
Board, introduced the Foreign Missions discussion. He first recognized the
missionaries above named, and at his suggestion the Recording Secretary was
requested by the Convention to express in writing the feeling of praise and
gratitude for the faithful service of Charles E. Maddry, Richmond, on the
occasion of his retirement as Executive Secretary of the Board on January 1,
1945.
Missionary L. Bun Olive was recognized. He spoke briefly and then intro-
duced Missionary Arthur S. Gillespie, now of Wake Forest, who brought the
special message on the theme "Southern Baptists and Foreign Amissions."
35. After a prayer, offered by the closing speaker, the session adjourned.
WEDNESDAY— Morning Session
36. This session featuring the work of State Missions, opened with the
singing of "Come, Thou Almighty King" and "I Need Thee Every Hour."
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37. President Herring led with various messengers joining in quoting scrip-
ture passages and afterwards Elliott R. Stewart, Windsor, offered prayer.
38. Chairman Wood announced the enrollment now included 1,186 mes-
sengers and 150 visitors.
39. With Zeno Wall, Shelby, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, presiding,
the report of the Baptist Orphanage of North Carolina (see Section 113, page
121) was read by Superintendent I. G. Greer, who presented as speakers to
the report, Miss Sarah Elmore of the Mills Home, and W. C. Reed of the
Kennedy Home.
40. The work of State Missions, presided over by General Secretary M. A.
Huggins, Raleigh, was the next order. Secretary Huggins called attention to
the various State Mission pastors. He next called upon L. L. Morgan, Sec-
retary of Division of Sunday Schols ; Harvey Gibson of the Division of Train-
ing Union, and R. T. Howerton, of the Division of Student Activities, each
of whom brought reports on their respective work.
In connection with the student work, Eugene I. Olive, Chaplain of Wake
Forest College, reported on the fine spiritual attitude he observes on this col-
lege campus.
Other State Mission features included a short message, "My Work as an
Associational Missionary" by Tom S. Lawrence, Winston-Salem. Clyde E.
Baucom, Wilson, spoke on the theme, "Keep the Home Fires Burning." Paus-
ing at this point in the State Mission program, J. S. Johnson, Fayetteville, read
the scripture and offered prayer, and he was followed by special music from
the Meredith College Sextet.
Continuing, Secretary Huggins presented Carey P. Herring, Fairmont, who
spoke on the subject "The Cooperative Program."
After singing "Beneath the Cross of Jesus" and a prayer by Robert L.
Moore, Mars Hill, Casper C. Warren, Charlotte, closed the subject on State
Missions with the message "The Imperative Call for Militant Evangelism,"
and, after he offered prayer, the session adjourned.
WEDNESDAY— Afternoon Session
41. Messengers began to assemble for this session one to two hours in ad-
vance of the scheduled opening. When the Convention convened at 2 :30 per-
haps the largest group of messengers to attend a State Convention had over-
flowed both the large church and Sunday School auditoriums. Their interest
centered on the Christian Education Program to be presented at this session.
42. After singing "Wonderful Words of Life," Luther Little, Charlotte,
offered prayer. He was followed by Bruce Hartsell, Franklinton, who sang
"Jerusalem."
43. Following a custom adopted at a prior Convention each of the three
seminaries were represented in the special message brought at this time by
Hersey Davis, a member of the faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Ky.
44. A suggestion by Charles H. Durham, Lumberton, that in view of the
lack of seating capacity, the assembled messengers adjourn across the street
to the auditorium of the First Methodist Church, was overruled by an over-
whelming vote.
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45. A special message on the theme "The Training of Ministers and Church
Workers" was brought by Fred C. Schatz, New Orleans, La.
46. The following report presented by Wm. Harrison Williams, Charlotte,
was approved upon his motion with a supporting amendment to the motion by
Arch C. Cree, Salisbury, that the present Committee composed of Wm. Har-
rison Williams, J. Clyde Turner, C. B. Deane, L. R. Varser, LeRoy Martin,
R. N. Simms and E. S. Summers be continued as the Committee on Constitu-
tion Changes.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES
The Committee appointed last year to suggest changes in the Con-
stitution regrets the fact that it is not prepared to make a full report.
Our study of the Constitution convinces us that many changes should be
made, and that ample time be given to the study of these changes. We
therefore make the following recommendation :
(1) That a new committee be appointed or that this committee be
continued and instructed to report at the 1945 session of the Convention.
(2) That brethren be urged to write to the members of the committee
suggesting any changes which in their judgment should be made.
(3) That the committee be instructed to publish in the Biblical Re-
corder at least six weeks before the meeting of the Convention any pro-
posed changes in the Constitution.
Wm. Harrison Williams, Chairman
R. N. Simms, Sr.
J. Clyde Turner
C. B. Deane
E. S. Summers
LeRoy Martin
L. R. Varser
47. The hour having arrived for which the messengers had waited, Claude
Gaddy, Raleigh, was recognized and he read from the Advance Report of the
General Board (see Section 87, page 75) covering meetings of the Council
on Christian Education, and thereafter sought to recognize the Presidents of
each of the Baptist Colleges, but none of the institutional heads spoke.
48. It was brought to the attention of the presiding officer that Governor
J. Melville Broughton was in the audience. His Excellency was requested to
come to the platform and following his brief words of response the Convention
moved to the heart of the afternoon's business.
49. For some weeks prior to the convening of the Convention, a great deal
of discussion, pro and con, on the merging of Wake Forest and Meredith, had
taken place. The question was now before the Convention for final action,
and at this time R. S. Dickson, Charlotte, asked to be recognized. In a brief
preface to the report, he stated that for many hours since the Convention had
been in session friends of Meredith and friends of Wake Forest had labored
in long conferences on the report. He observed that by the report neither
side had won, but the cause of Christian Education among our Baptist Schools
should be strengthened. He then read the report to one of the most attentive
Baptist Convention groups ever assembled. As the report unfolded friends of
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the schools involved were inclined to voice their feelings by handclapping, until
President Herring expressed the belief that such action was not representative
of a Christian body and thereafter the audience was quiet. At the conclusion
R. S. Dickson moved the adoption of the report which was seconded by John
R. Knott, Charlotte, the salient features being that Meredith would continue
as a four-year college for girls and that Wake Forest would be allowed to
assume the status of a University and girls would be allowed to enter on the
same basis as men.
There followed a discussion of the report by Zeno Wall, Shelby, and Wm.
Harrison Williams, Charlotte, representing the two viewpoints and John A.
Oates, Fayetteville, and W. H. Weatherspoon, Raleigh, President of the Boards
of Trustees of Wake Forest and Meredith respectively.
The discussion terminated when the Convention approved the motion of
Arch C. Cree, Salisbury, that all discussion cease and the vote be received
which, when taken, was overwhelming in favor of the report that follows.
SPECIAL REPORT RE WAKE FOREST-MEREDITH
Whereas, Baptists of North Carolina face a day of unprecedented
need and opportunity for Christian education ; and whereas, there is an
imperative need for a more vital integration of all educational resources
in order to meet these needs and opportunities, we offer the following
resolutions :
Be it resolved :
1. We reaffirm the desire of this Convention to provide for our youth
the opportunity which bears the full impact of the Christian faith. We
believe that our schools should and must order their work to this end,
taking care that in the arrangement of curricula the choices of their
administration and faculty, along with the ideals and customs of campus
life, primacy is given to the spirit and content of the Christian message
as interpreted in the life and work of North Carolina Baptists.
Thereby we shall have confidence that the graduates of these institu-
tions will return to the communities and churches of our State, not only
well trained in mind but also deepened in personal religious experience
and faith, and committed to the responsibilities of Christian leadership in
church and community.
2. That Meredith College shall be and remain in its present location
as a standard four-year "A" Grade College for young women, and that
its plant, facilities and curriculum shall be enlarged and expanded to meet
adequately the needs of the young women of our State for an institution
of higher Christian education and culture.
3. That Wake Forest College now has and shall continue to have full
university status as an accredited "A" Grade University of highest Chris-
tian education and culture ; that all classes of Wake Forest College shall
be open for the admission of young women upon the same basis as young
men, and that its plant, facilities and curriculum shall be expanded and
enlarged to meet the needs of the young people of our State.
4. That the present Council on Christian Education be continued as
now constituted, with the following additions to its membership: (a) The
members of the Education Committee of the General Board, and (b)
seven members at large to be named by the Baptist State Convention.
The Chairman of the Committee on Education of the General Board
shall be the Chairman of the Council and the President of the State
W.M.U. shall be the Secretary.
That in the interim between the sessions of the Convention the Council
shall have charge and control of the entire program of education of the
Convention, except that in the event of disagreement between the Council
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.and the -Beafd-o-f- -Trustees of any institution supported by the Conven-
ti on., eit her the Council or the Board of Trustees of such institution shall
have, the right of appeal to the General Board, and the decision of the
General Board thereon shall he final and binding. Any action by the
Council - during the interim between the sessions of the Convention shall
be-binding upon the Convention.
It shall be the duty of the Council to meet at the call of the Chairman,
at least quarterly, and it shall perform, among others, the following
duties :
(1) It shall provide ways and means for bringing about whatever co-
operation is necessary for the proper correlation of the work and pro-
grams in the various educational institutions supported by the North
Carolina Baptist State Convention, to the end that these institutions may
be of the greatest possible service in the cause of Christian education. p^>-
(2) It shall study the needs of the various educational institutions and
their ability to meet these needs, and upon the basis of its findings, it shall ^
allocate to the institutions such funds as may be made available by the
Convention for Christian education, with- the right to designate how such
f-u«4s— may- be expended within the various institutions.
(3) The Council may, in its discretion, out of funds provided for
allocation, employ an Executive Secretary, and such other assistance as
may be deemed necessary to carry out effectively the duties herein out-
lined, and all other duties imposed upon the Council by this resolution.
(4) To formulate and promote plans for increasing the interest in and
the support of these various educational institutions, and to make an
annual report in detail to the Convention upon all the work and findings
of the Council.
Resolved further, that our churches and our membership through
the State be asked and urged to give the fullest support to and co-
operation in our program of Christian education, in such way as each
church and member may elect, to the end that our educational institutions
may serve the denomination in an efficient and effective manner.
50. W. Perry Crouch, Asheville, was recognized and offered the following
motion, giving the required notice in order to amend the Constitution of the
Convention, involving the election of the Trustees of the Convention's Boards
and Institutions.
NOTICE TO CHANGE CONSTITUTION
In view of the widespread feeling that something should be done to
make our Baptist educational institutions more fervently evangelistic
and more positively Christian, and, in view of the need to bring our in-
stitutions closer to the heart of our churches, and believing the following
action is a step in this direction, we the undersigned give notice that
tomorrow we will present a resolution to change paragraph a, Section 1,
Article VII, of the Constitution of the Baptist State Convention, which
has to do with election of trustees of the Convention's institutions. The
suggested change to place all trustees of the Convention on a rotating
system, as is now true of the General Board and the Biblical Recorder
Directors.
Paragraph a, Section I, Article VII as changed would read as follows :
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina shall elect the trus-
tees of said corporation and their regular term of office shall be four
years. At the first election by the Convention one-fourth of the board
of trustees shall be elected to serve for one year, one-fourth for two
years, one- fourth for three years and the remaining one- fourth for four
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years. At each subsequent regular annual session of the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina one-fourth of the members of the Board
of Trustees of said corporation shall be elected by the Convention to
succeed the members of said Board retiring, the retiring members being
ineligible for reelection until one year has transpired. This change to
become effective now.
51. Following a prayer by J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro, the session
adjourned.
WEDNESDAY— Evening Session
52. This session centering around Social, Civic and World Service opened
with the singing of "Rescue the Perishing," after which Missionary J. C. Pow-
ell offered prayer, and again the audience joined in singing "Jesus Calls Us."
53. General Secretary Huggins read the report prepared by the Historical
Commission (see Section 116, page 128) being a part of the General Board's
Report.
54. The Trustees of the Convention presented through their Secretary
R. L. McMillan, Raleigh, the following report, which upon motion by M. A.
Huggins was approved.
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF THE BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION
OF NORTH CAROLINA— 1944
The trustees of the Convention, as elected by the 1943 session of the
Convention, are F. H. Brooks, P. H. Wilson and R. L. McMillan. F. H.
Brooks is Chairman and R. L. McMillan is Secretary.
Only two meetings have been held by the trustees during the year.
The following matters of business were transacted :
1. The trustees made transfer of certain lots in Sunset Park, Wil-
mington, to the North Carolina Baptist Foundation, and in return took
title to certain other lots, upon which lots the Sunset Park Baptist
Church is located.
They also took title to a house and lot, now serving as the pastor's
home for Sunset Park Church. They also transferred title to house and
lot owned by the corporation, and which was sold in order to buy the new
lot and pastor's home referred to above.
2. In the meeting on August 9 the trustees, upon instructions from the
Executive Committee of the General Board, endorsed a note signed by
the Trustees of the Carolina Beach Baptist Church, made to the Carolina
Building and Loan Association of Wilmington, in the amount of $20,000.
3. The Convention requires bonds of certain officers and employees.
Heretofore bonds have been in force of individual officers and employees.
During the year the bonds were changed to a blanket bond, covering all
officers and employees who handle any money, in the amount of $10,000
for each employee and the General Secretary and Treasurer. The Gen-
eral Secretary and Treasurer is also bonded for an additional $15,000. At
practically the same cost this new blanket bond provides full protection
for all employees of the Convention.
R. L. McMillan, Secretary.
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55. A report from the Enrollment Committee showed a registration of 1,598
messengers and 222 visitors.
56. L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh, offered in behalf of the Committee on Pub-
licity the Committee's report and upon his motion it was approved as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLICITY
The Committee on Publicity wishes to express deep gratitude for help
and courtesies extended during the 114th annual session of the North
Carolina Baptist State Convention.
First of all, we wish to thank the personnel of the First Church of
Charlotte for assistance rendered ; to the host pastor, Dr. Casper C.
Warren, and to Educational Director J. M. Crowe, who so graciously
granted us adequate office space and who contributed equipment and mate-
rial for our use, and to the Charlotte Typographical Union for the loan
of additional needed equipment.
Your committee feels that we have indeed been fortunate in having
the services of Miss Martha Ann Allen, of Wake Forest, official reporter
for this Convention, who is rendering, and has rendered, splendid services
in reporting its proceedings. She has rendered similar services in previous
Conventions and her work has been of an exceedingly high order.
The two Charlotte daily papers have been especially helpful and co-
operative and have been very liberal in the use of space given to cover
the reports of the Convention. This committee is grateful to The Char-
lotte Observer and to the special representative of that paper, Mrs. Hazel
Trotter, for the splendid and complete reports given, and to Miss Freck
Sproles, special reporter for The Charlotte News, who has rendered a
like service for that paper, and to both day and night bureaus of the
Associated Press, for complete and accurate coverage of the proceed-
ings of this Convention for State and Southwide papers. Mr. A. F.
Littlejohn has been on the floor of the Convention, representing the
Associated Press, and Miss Joanne Edson has been present for the
United Press. Mr. Erwin A. Lemons, of The Greensboro Daily News,
has been on the Convention floor reporting the proceedings for that paper.
Garland Hendricks has rendered good service in assisting the editor
in reporting the proceedings of the Convention for the Biblical Recorder.
Recognition should be given C. R. Austin, special representative for
The Charlotte News, and a member of the Publicity Committee for the
fine work he has done in preparing for the work of the committee, and
for the splendid services he has rendered before and during the Con-
vention sessions.
To all these, and to any who may have in any way contributed to the
work and success of this committee, we wish to express our deep and
abiding appreciation.
57. The Convention approved the report from the Committee on Place and
Preacher for the 1945 Convention upon motion by Claude Gaddy, Raleigh, as
follows :
Place: First Baptist Church, Raleigh.
Preacher: Louis S. Gaines, Fayetteville.
Alternate: W. D. Poe, Oxford.
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58. A unanimous report was received from the Committee to Report on
the General Board's Report and upon motion by T. P. Pruitt, the report was
adopted as follows :
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO REPORT ON THE
GENERAL BOARD'S REPORT
We, your committee, recommend the adoption of the General Board's
recommendations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 as submitted.
We recommend the adoption of the 6th recommendation with the fol-
lowing addition, which we find will eliminate any conflict with section
seven of the recommendations : Add after the figures 1945, in line seven,
the following 'Above the $130,000.00 as set forth in the report of the
Council on Christian Education, and made the recommendation of the
General Board in its 7th section."
With reference to Recommendation No. 12, your committee recom-
mends the following disposition be made of same :
That while recognizing the Baptist Hospital should be enlarged in the
near future to meet the needs, both of the Hospital and the Wake
Forest Bowman Gray Medical School, we are of the opinion that the
recommendation of the General Board that the trustees of the North
Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc., be authorized to borrow $600,000.00
to meet the cost of an immediate building program should not be adopted
at this time, but should be deferred for a year in order that our people
may be informed of the needs for this enlargement and be in a position
to render an informed opinion upon the question when and if said prop-
osition is hereinafter presented to the Convention.
59. Upon the reading of the Report of the Radio Committee (see Section
99, page 99) it was approved upon motion by M. A. Huggins.
60. Under the general topic of "The Men in Our Churches," an oral report
and discussion was presented by C. R. Browning, Jr., Asheville. Thereafter
a strong address was brought by L. A. Martin, Lexington, President of the
Allied Church League.
61. A. D. Kinnett, Burlington, brought the following majority report from
the Committee on Social Service and Civic Righteousness, which was followed
by a minority report on the division concerning War and Peace, read by
Recording Secretary C. B. Deane in behalf of Mrs. R. L. Councilman.
MAJORITY REPORT SOCIAL SERVICE AND CIVIC
RIGHTEOUSNESS
Your Committee is charged with the responsibility of bringing before the
Convention the general problems which confront our churches concerning hu-
man betterment, and to offer the best recommendations as to how they may be
met and solved from a Christian point of view.
Christian citizenship is of prime importance in our Baptist ranks in North
Carolina and throughout the world. The 551,000 Baptist people in our State
should become a marching army for social service and civic righteousness.
Our people should bring to bear the highest type of Christian thinking and
living upon all phases of human activity. We should take a positive stand
on the side of social and political justice for all the people. We must ever
see all men through the eyes of Jesus, and work for their social and spiritual
enrichment.
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Temperance
The Social Service Committee of the Convention has continued its fight
against alcohol in North Carolina. Not only has it made a fight through
its own channels and through the efforts of the individual members of the
Committee, but it has played a very important part in bringing about a con-
certed effort on the part of the men and women in the various Christian
churches of the State, which resulted in the organization of the Allied Church
League for the Abolition of Beverage Alcohol.
This organization is made up of a group of people from about thirteen
Christian denominations in North Carolina. It is not a church organization
in the sense that it functions under church direction; it is church sponsored
and church supported but governed and controlled by a Board of Trustees
of its own, elected by various groups.
The organization is headed by Dr. I. G. Greer, with M. A. Huggins serv-
ing as Treasurer, Dr. H. I. Glass as Secretary, and L. A. Martin, as Execu-
tive Director.
The work of the organization is making excellent progress. The field
is a fertile one and there is much to do. The organization is laying a
foundation that will require time, but on this foundation something per-
manent in temperance work will be built.
The main point of emphasis in the work of the Allied Church League is
education — education that will not only warn the youth and their parents
of the destructive nature of alcohol on character, but on their physical being
as well. Legislation will be asked to make our acts consistent with our
teachings.
In time, it is hoped that the State Department of Education will volun-
tarily set in motion a broad plan of education covering the temperance
question, and point out what science teaches on the liquor evil.
The Allied Church League is also publishing a monthly paper, Tomorrow,
which now has a circulation of more than ten thousand.
Your Committee calls upon Christian people everywhere to set an example
in temperance in their personal lives and in their homes. We feel that Chris-
tians must bear their responsibility for the prevalence of so much social drink-
ing in our day. It is futile to call upon the state for political action unless
Christian people themselves shall conform to the highest standard of temperance.
We recommend to the Allied Church League for the Abolition of Beverage
Alcohol that it formulate plans looking forward to the strict enforcement of
present laws, and the addition of other laws that will reduce the drinking evil
in our state and the curtailment of liquor advertising through our daily news-
papers and on the radio.
We recommend to the Allied Church League for the Abolition of Beverage
Alcohol that, at the appropriate time, a petition shall be presented to the state
legislature seeking a state referendum on the liquor question looking forward to
outlawing of the liquor traffic in North Carolina.
Juvenile Delinquency
It does not seem right for your committee to pass by the alarming
situation that flourishes in connection with the morality of youth. For the
years of the war civic organizations, recorders' courts, state health officials
and the Federa' Bureau of Investigation have sounded warning after warn-
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ing over the mounting rate of delinquency. A report before the National
Probation Association last April revealed that in 148 juvenile courts of all
cities and counties above 50,000 there has been an increase of 8% of cases
tried from 1940 to 1941, and still further increase of 9% from 1941 to 1942,
when 112,889 cases were tried. J. Edgar Hoover of the F.B.I, reports that
the arrest of girls under 21 rose from 9,675 in 1941 to 15,068 in 1942.
There are many cases of this condition over our land. In a time of
war there is always a restlessness which affects youth no less than adults.
The sinister influences of war reach out over the lands affected and cast
their shadows over young and old alike. The stabilizing influence of the
school slips. It was reported by the secretary of the National Education
Association to its annual meeting in Indianapolis last June that 2,000,000
boys and girls between fourteen and eighteen years of age had left school
to work; that a half million of them were fourteen and fifteen, and many
thousands under fourteen. Broken homes, frequently with both parents
away most of the day and night, at work or in government service, com-
plicates the problem. The glamor of the uniform on any enlisted man too
often proves a stumbling block for unwary and undirected girls, whose steps
are wayward turned.
As a Convention, we place ourselves on record to endeavor to help youth
and lead it in ways of stability and right living. We would urge our men
and women by example, no less than by precept, to direct aright the be-
havior of our youth. To that end we urge the strengthening of family ties
in the midst of conditions that all but tear them to pieces. We would call
attention to the importance of boys and girls continuing their school work
in order to meet the needs of that generation of men and women of which
they will be a part. We favor the strengthening of our juvenile courts and
probation offices, so that they may give more particular attention to offend-
ers both at the time of the offense and in following up the career of the
offender. Most of all, we pray for a church ministry, from pulpit to the last
class room, from minister to every person under whose care children may
come, that will lead into the abundant life all the children of our land.
War and Peace
We register our opposition to war, but acquiesce in the efforts to win
the present conflict since our liberties and the world's freedom are endan-
gered. The position and the attitude of Baptists toward their country in
time of war is one of loyalty and patriotism. We have never failed our
nation during a national crisis of this nature.
We believe that the present war is one between right and wrong, one be-
tween dictators and free men. Our nation is not fighting for more territory,
nor to deprive other people of their possessions, but we are fighting for life
itself, including liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the right to wor-
ship God according to the dictates of conscience. We should, therefore,
pray without ceasing for our men who are fighting for our freedom. We
should for their sake, if for no other, keep our churches spiritually strong
so that when they return home from the camps and the battlefields, scarred
in many cases, in body, mind and soul, they will find in the churches which
they left a cower divine that will rebuild their faith in God and also re-
habilitate their whole lives along spiritual iines. Their sacrifices stand as
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a daily challenge to our churches to consecrate themselves unto the Lord
and thus become thoroughly "furnished unto all good works."
To avoid future wars as far as it is humanly possible, we heartily
approve a world organization backed by military force if necessary, which
will outlaw war and guarantee the peace of the world. We further register
our conviction that it is the obligation and the privilege of our Baptist
churches, along with all other Christian churches, to lay the foundation and
to furnish the moral leadership for the peace of the world. We do not feel
that a world organization in itself is sufficient to maintain world peace. The
principles of Christianity, therefore, must be its foundation. Before the
world can have peace it must first have the Prince of Peace, and it is the
primary business of the Christian Churches to give the Prince of Peace to
all the nations.
Religious Freedom
We believe that religious freedom is a God given and inherent right to be
enjoyed by every soul, and that it is the mother of all freedoms. We believe
that there should be full and unfettered religious liberty for all men, and
that they should be given the right to worship God anywhere in the world
according to the dictates of their conscience, and also to preach the gospel
anywhere in the world they might feel led to do so.
We urge that outstanding Christian statesmen who know the rights of the
soul as well as the body, who will both interpret and champion the rights of
the mind, to think, to speak, and to worship without any threat of intimidation
from rulers, civil governments, religious potentates or hierarchies be put on
the Peace Council. We feel that religious liberty should be at the heart of the
peace treaty, and that every man should be guaranteed the right to proclaim
his own religious beliefs and determine his own religious affiliation.
Neither civil governments nor hierarchies must be allowed to put the
slightest embargo on any man's conscience or oppress any human being in
his religious opinions. The Peace Treaty should make this clear to all the
world, and able Christian men should sit in that Conference to make it clear
to statesmen and politicians who do not know it.
Race Relations
Race relations are not confined to the Negro and white races here in the
South. The problem has been in the world since races began to live along-
side of each other. Sometimes it is the white man and the red man; again
it is the Arab against the Jew; then it is the German lording it over the
Jew, and the Japanese against the white, and the white against the Negro and
so it goes with us, and it presents one of the most acute and aggravated prob-
lems with which any peoples must deal.
Here in the land of the free and the home of the brave we have a race
problem between the white man and the Negro. We feel that the two fac-
tors that will bring about better relations between the white man and the
Negro is embodied in the two words, Education and Christianity. Education
can go far in breaking down the barriers that seperate the two races. Chris-
tianity must go further in creating mutual understanding and in manifesting
that spirit which makes for the common good of all.
We are grateful to note that our Southern Baptist Convention and North
Carolina State Baptist Convention are interesting themselves in Negro Minis-
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terial Education. This will mean a more adequately trained leadership among
Negro preachers which will result in better understanding between the two
races. We wish to commend also the North Carolina W.M.U. in their efforts
to better interracial relations. When we bring to bear Christian Education and
vital Christianity upon the race problem, we have gone far in solving it.
We, therefore, call upon the people of our churches and especially our
pastors to see that the Negro race has a fair opportunity to secure an educa-
tion, and to know Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. We call upon our
government, both local and federal, to see that our Negro brothers are accorded
justice in the courts, and that he has a fair chance in the business world in
matters of employment and wage.
We call upon all of our churches and ministers to see that he is treated
fairly and Christian in all his relationships with his white neighbors.
Our Relation to Other Denominations
The war has brought the nations of the earth close together. It has taught
them the necessity of cooperating one with the other for the mutual good of all.
Cooperation is the foundation lesson men n«ed to learn today in every realm
of activity. Cooperation is a good Baptist word. Our Baptist people probably
understand the word better than any other religious group because it is the
one link that binds us together in the local church and in our denominational
work. By it we have built up our churches and our denominational program
of worldwide redemption. By it we have wrought more things than this world
dreams of.
The Baptists are neither unionist nor isolationist in their relationship to
other Christian bodies and denominations. We believe that we have a dis-
tinct and unique message to give to the whole world and that all people need
our message and would be profited and blessed by it. With this conviction
deep in our souls we refuse both the unionist and isolationist way of life for
our churches and for our denomination. The unionist way would lead us into
the broad highway of absorption and loss of identity, and the isolationist way
would lead us down the narrow corridor of selfishness to death. Therefore,
we reject both of these ways, and choose to continue in the historic Baptist
way of cooperation. In those fields where we can cooperate with other de-
nominations and other Christian organizations, our people have always done so
and will continue to do so. Your committee believes that it is the desire of
our local churches and of this Convention to cooperate with other denomina-
tions in those fields of work and Christian activity where our united efforts
will accomplish more by common participation than by each working separately.
This is especially true right now in the field of religious freedom in the
making of the new national and international structures for the post-war world.
We should therefore cooperate with all denominations in securing the widest
possible adoption of full religious freedom for all the people of the w r orld. We
should also cooperate with other Christian bodies in North Carolina in efforts
of moral reform and better citizenship. There is the field of juvenile delin-
quency, the field of temperance, and of rehabilitation of prisoners, and of
better race relationships, and many other similar fields where we can accomplish
more by working together than separately. But it must always be understood
that in these fields of work and areas of activity where we can cooperate for
the common good, that our church polity and beliefs will in no way be in-
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volved, and that it will be done without any sort of ecclesiastical or denomina-
tional federation. With this understanding and in this spirit we stand ready to
cooperate with other denominations and Christian bodies.
Respectfully submitted,
A. D. Kinnett, Chairman.
MINORITY REPORT SOCIAL SERVICE AND CIVIC
RIGHTEOUSNESS
War and Peace
We register our opposition to war in the belief that it is opposed to the
philosophy of love, which is central in the teachings and example of Christ.
Nevertheless, our country is at war. The position of Baptists toward their
country in time of war has always been one of loyalty. We have never failed
our nation during a national crisis of this nature. We desire at this time to
urge upon the Convention and the churches, the necessity for courageous moral
conquest on the home front. Our nation is calling for maximum support in the
contribution of time, money and men. The response has been magnificent. At
this response we rejoice, in the hope that this expenditure of human life will
soon be ended and will result, not in decay and destruction, but in a new
chance for all people of the world to experience the "four freedoms." We
are reminded, however, that this result can only come through increasing moral
vigilance and emphasis upon Christian precepts. For not only is war, itself, a
danger to the moral and spiritual integrity of those who engage in it, but it
creates inevitable conditions which aggravate the ordinary problems of life.
Already we can see the effects of the war upon the problems of the family,
race, education and economic conflict, as well as in the private lives of millions
of people. As Christians we insist that even in war time, hatred of others
must be avoided, even when we hate their evil deeds. God is concerned about
all mankind, and as His children, it behooves us to pray for those who despite-
fully use us.
We would further continue to respond to the cause of humanitarian service
in the name of Christ — cheerfully give for the relief of stricken people all over
the world, minister to Axis prisoners in our own land, and care for the spiritual
needs of our service men and women, through personal contacts in communities
where they are found, and through the local churches, praying for them and
keeping in touch with them, regularly. We should keep our churches growing
spiritually so that when our men and women* return home, scarred, in many
cases, in body, mind and soul, they will find the churches ready to help them
rebuild or deepen their faith in God and to rehabilitate their whole lives upon
spiritual lines.
We rejoice in the many agencies that are planned for the acceptance of
principles upon which an enduring peace may be formulated. We urge that
Christ-like attitudes may be demonstrated at the peace table, and that con-
ditions for rebuilding the world may be such to insure freedom and justice
for all. To help to avoid future wars we heartily approve a world organization
which will endeavor to outlaw war and guarantee the peace of the world. We
further register our conviction that it is the obligation and privilege of our
Baptist churches, along with all other Christian churches, to lay the foundation
and to furnish the moral leadership for the peace of the world. We do not
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feel that a world organization in itself is sufficient to maintain peace. The
principles of Christianity, therefore^ must be its foundation. Before the world
can have peace it must first have the Prince of Peace, and it is the primary
business of Christian churches to give the Prince of Peace to all nations.
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. R. L. Councilman.
Upon the question to adopt the minority report on War and Peace, as pre-
sented by Mrs. Councilman, the motion was lost. Thereafter the original re-
port as presented was approved upon motion by A. D. Kinnett.
62. President Herring recognized B. E. Morris, Durham, who presented
Robert L. Humber, Greenville, who brought the closing address of the evening
session on International Relations.
63. After prayer by E. N. Johnson, Fair Bluff, the session adjourned.
THURSDAY— Morning Session
64. President Herring called the closing session to order at 9 :30 and the
assembled messengers sang "Near the Cross" and "Blessed Assurance." Fol-
lowing the singing of these songs, favorite passages of scripture were quoted
by several messengers.
65. Oscar Creech, Ahoskie, offered prayer.
66. A special resolution offered by B. E. Morris on World Federation was
referred to the Committee on Resolutions.
67. The following motion offered by L. J. Rainey, Grover, concerning alco-
holic beverages was unanimously adopted :
1. That the North Carolina Baptist State Convention (meeting in
Charlotte, November 14-16, 1944, with 1,603 registered delegates), go on
record as favoring the complete outlawing of the sale, use, and adver-
tising of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes ;
2. That we do hereby request and petition the General Assembly of
North Carolina to outlaw the sale, use, and advertising of all alcoholic
liquors for beverage purposes within the State of North Carolina;
3. That if the General Assembly of North Carolina does not wish to
outlaw the sale, use, and advertising of all alcoholic liquors for beverage
purposes without another vote of the people, we do hereby request and
petition a referendum both on the sale, use, and advertising of all alco-
holic liquors for beverage purposes within the State of North Carolina ;
4. That the President, the General Secretary, and the Recording Sec-
retary of this Convention constitute a committee who shall present the
wishes and will of this Convention to the Governor-Elect and to the
next General Assembly of North Carolina.
68. Upon motion by Wm. Harrison Williams, Charlotte, the President,
Recording Secretary and General Secretary were authorized to review and
perfect the proceedings of this Convention.
69. The President recognized J. S. Lynch, Winston-Salem, Chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the Baptist Hospital who presided during the dis-
cussion of the Hospital Report (see Section 114, page 122). The report was
adopted upon motion by Chairman Lynch, after a discussion of the work of
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the Hospital and Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College,
by Ray Brown, Administrator of the Hospital and Superintendent Smith
Hagaman.
70. A special musical selection, "The Lord Is My Shepherd," was offered at
this time by Joe Hamrick and Mrs. Joe Hamrick.
71. J. Louis Price, Hickory, brought the special scripture message and
offered prayer.
72. Upon motion by M. L. Bannister, Oxford, the report he presented as
Chairman of the Committee to Nominate Trustees of the Convention, Its In-
stitutions and Members of the General Board, was adopted as follows :
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO NOMINATE TRUSTEES OF
THE CONVENTION, ITS INSTITUTIONS AND MEMBERS
OF THE GENERAL BOARD
Trustees of the Convention:
Terms Expiring 1945: R. L. McMillan, Raleigh; P. H. Wilson, Raleigh;
F. H. Brooks, Smithfield.
The General Board:
Terms Expiring 1947: W. T. Moss, Youngsville ; W. A. Elam, Shelby; J.
Marshall Walker, Stovall ; G. W. Green, Spruce Pine ; Emmett Griffin, Mon-
roe ; Miss Addie Mae Cook, Murphy ; T. C. Johnson, Kinston ; R. C. Shearin,
Hickory; George Beavers, Apex; R. E. Adams, Winston-Salem; J. Roy Clif-
ford, Lexington; C. Sylvester Green, Durham; R. F. Jarrett, Dillsboro; A. J.
Buckner, Asheville ; James B. Turner, Laurinburg ; Carl L. Ousley, Siler City.
Terms Expiring 1945: Fred Forester, Drexel, to replace J. D. McCready,
Morganton, now in armed service ; Howard G. Dawkins, Hertford, to replace
James H. Smith, Greensboro, now in armed service. Chas B. Trammel, Troy,
to replace H. M. Hocutt, Biltmore, resigned.
Baptist Foundation:
Terms Expiring 1949: J. D. Wilkins, Greensboro; W. L. Bennett, Wades-
boro ; E. M. Johnson, Lumberton.
Term Expiring 1947 : Grover H. Jones, High Point, to replace Oscar Hay-
wood, Mount Gilead, deceased.
North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc.:
Terms Expiring 1946: Mrs. C. M. Myers, Elkin ; C. M. Scott, High Point,
replacing J. Wilbur Crews and J. A. Naylor, deceased.
Terms Expiring 1948 : Amos S. Bumgardner, Charlotte ; James G. Middle-
ton, Wilmington; R. E. Earp, Selma ; J. S. Lynch, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Otis
E. Tucker, Winston-Salem.
Baptist Orphanage of North Carolina:
Terms Expiring 1948: Zeno Wall, Shelby; H. S. Stokes, Winston-Salem;
Robert A. Mclntyre, Lumberton; Glenn Choate, Salisbury.
Biblical Recorder Directors:
Terms Expiring 1948: J. S. Hopkins, High Point; G. Carl Lewis, Wil-
mington; E. C. Tatum, Cooleemee ; T. Lacy Williams, Raleigh.
Term Expiring 1945 : Eugene Bullard, Wilmington, replacing Marshall
Mott, resigned.
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Term Expiring 1946 : Santford Martin, Winston- Salem, replacing John T.
Wayland, Durham, now in the armed service.
Campbell College:
Terms Expiring 1948 : James I. Miller, Wilson ; W. C. Downing, Fayette-
ville ; D. H. Senter, Chalybeate Springs ; W. H. Upchurch, Oxford ; W. C.
Lucas, Asheboro.
Chowan College:
Terms Expiring 1945 : W. D. Boone, Winton ; B. J. Ward, Sunbury ; John
O. Askew, Harrellsville; J. Elliott Ward, Sr., Elizabeth City; W. R. Parker,
Woodland; Dennis Morgan, Elizabeth City.
Terms Expiring 1946 : W. J. Rountree, Hobbsville ; Harry Stephenson,
Pendelton; W. T. Love, Jr., Elizabeth City; George Gibbs, Murf reesboro ;
A. E. Bowen, Windsor ; H. C. Newbold, Elizabeth City.
Terms Expiring 1947 : John M. Elliott, Edenton ; Mrs. P. D. Sewell, Mur-
freesboro; W. A. McGlohon, Murfreesboro ; J. Craig Revelle, Murf reesboro ;
Raynor Woodard, Conway; Harry Fereba, Camden.
Terms Expiring 1948 : George T. Underwood, Murfreesboro ; Mrs. Sallie
Parker, Jackson; D. P. Medlin, South Mills; Merrill Evans, Ahoskie ; Charles
H. Jenkins, Aulander ; Lowell K. Powell, Ahoskie.
(The committee expressed the wish that Mr. J. H. Matthews, Windsor, who
is ill, and who has served as Chairman for some years, might be elected as
an honorary trustee.)
Mars Hill College:
Terms Expiring 1948 : W. T. Duckworth, Asheville ; W. Marvin Scruggs,
Charlotte ; Mrs. Rush Stroup, Shelby ; E. F. Watson, Spruce Pine ; W. H.
Wray, Gastonia; Mrs. Bertha Carr, Hickory.
Meredith College:
Terms Expiring 1948 : Mrs. Foy Johnson Farmer, Raleigh ; Z. M. Caven-
ess, Raleigh ; C. T. Council, Durham ; J. Y. Joyner, La Grange ; LeRoy Martin,
Raleigh ; Mrs. Anna Kitchin Josey, Scotland Neck.
Wake Forest College:
Terms Expiring 1948 : Johnson J. Hayes, Wilkesboro ; Charles C. Holland,
Hickory ; R. P. Holding, Smithfield ; A. J. Hutchins, Canton ; John A. Oates,
Fayetteville ; Herbert Peele, Elizabeth City ; Basil M. Watkins, Durham ;
J. C. Watkins, Winston-Salem; J. B. Willis, Hamlet; W. L. Wyatt, Raleigh.
73. Having given notice on yesterday, Perry Crouch now presented the
following motion to amend the Constitution which was approved :
Paragraph a, Section 1, Article VII, as changed would read as
follows :
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina shall elect the
trustees of said corporation and their regular term of office shall be four
years. At the first election by the Convention one-fourth of the board
of trustees shall be elected to serve for one year, one-fourth for two
years, one-fourth for three years and the remaining one-fourth for four
years. At each subsequent regular annual session of the Baptist State
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Convention of North Carolna one-fourth of the members of the Board
of Trustees of said corporation shall be elected by the Convention to suc-
ceed the members of said Board retiring, the retiring members being
ineligible for reelection until one year has elapsed.
74. Oscar Creech, Ahoskie, made the motion which was adopted that the
1944 Annual be dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Wesley Norwood Jones.
75. A report was received from the Baptist Foundation and read by M. A.
Huggins as a matter of information. (See Section 117, page 129.)
76. The next order was the electon of a President and three Vice Presidents
of the Convention.
The following nominations were received for President of the Convention :
Sankey A. Blanton, Wilmington; Hoyt Blackwell, Mars Hill; Ralph A. Her-
ring, Winston-Salem; and Claude F. Gaddy, Raleigh. In the nomination of
Ralph A. Herring, it was pointed out by Wra. Harrison Willams, that there
was nothing in the Constitution to prevent the reelection of President Herring
for a second term. On this point A. D. Kinnett, Burlington, in kindly deference
to the presiding officer, insisted that his motion adopted at a prior Convention,
"that it was the sense of the Convention that a President serve for only one
year," prevail. The matter came to a vote upon motion by Wm. Harrison
Williams and the Convention failed to sustain its former position and President
Herring, who spoke to sustain the Convention's former action, remained a
candidate for President. Upon the ballot Ralph A. Herring, Winston- Salem,
was reelected President.
77. In the nominations for Vice President, Arthur S. Gillespie, Wake For-
est, was nominated for 1st Vice President, Tom P. Pruitt, Hickory, for 2nd
Vice President, and R. A. Ellis, Salisbury, for 3rd Vice President.
Upon motion by L. J. Rainey, Grover, the nominations were closed, and
C. B. Deane, Recording Secretary, upon motion by John Arch McMillan, Thom-
asville, cast the vote of the Convention for the Vice Presidents as nominated.
78. A report was received from R. K. Redwine, Hickory, in behalf of Home
Missions, which was adopted after an address by S. F. Dowis, of the Home
Mission Board on the subject "City Missions in the Centennial Crusade."
HOME MISSION REPORT
The Home Mission Board recognizes that our obligation is not to the
Southland but to all peoples and it is deeply concerned about giving the
message of Christ to the whole world. However, we are keenly conscious
that the length and breadth of power of our missionary spirit and pro-
gram will depend on our home base. We cannot give that which we do
not have ourselves. We must have a religion at home that is worth giv-
ing to people abroad. When the people of the homeland come to know
and do the will of Christ, we can teach the same to the world.
Post-War
The missionary and his message are indispensable both in times of
peace and in times of war. The war will end some day and when it
does we will doubtless face new needs and new opportunities. The Home
Mission Board is vitally concerned about a post-war program and is
giving it considerable study. You are urged to join in earnest and fre-
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quent prayer that we might wisely plan and effectively plan to worthily
discharge our obligations to a post-war world.
We can't make and maintain a peace program for the world until we
learn to follow the unselfish principles of the Prince of Peace. H. G.
Wells in 1916 saw clearly and spoke frankly with prophetic insight.
"The thought of war," says Dr. Wells, "will sit like a giant over all
human affairs for the next twenty years. It will say to all of us : 'Set
your house in order; if you squabble among yourselves, waste time, liti-
gate, muddle, snatch profits and shirk obligations, I will certainly come
again. I have all your young men between 18 and 50, and killed and
maimed such as I please, millions of them. I have wasted your sub-
stance contemptuously. Now you have multitudes of male children be-
tween the ages of nine and nineteen running among you. And behind
them come millions of babies. But go on muddling, each for himself and
his parish and his family, and none for all the world ; go on in the old
way. Stick to your rights, stick to your claims, each one of you, make
no concession and no sacrifices, obstruct, waste, squabble, and presently I
will come again and take all that fresh harvest of life, and squeeze it into
red jam between my fingers and mix it with mud of the trenches and
feast on it before your eyes.' "
What greater contribution can we make to the new order of the post-
war world than to make the will of Christ known in the home land and
get it done here?
The Fields Are White
Every field where the Home Board has labored through the years is
ripening for a larger harvest and calling for more workers. Since we
have been relieved of the debt load some enlargement has been possible.
The Board plans even greater enlargement of the work in fields now
occupied.
There are some large groups for which we feel a special obligation:
11,000,000 Negroes, 1,500,000 Mexicans and Spanish-speaking Americans,
700,000 French, 600,000 Italians and more than 200,000 original Amer-
icans, the Indians. If we add to these some smaller racial groups like the
Chinese, Russians, Japanese and half a million Jews, we have a popula-
tion of about 15,000,000 for whom we are providing less than one mis-
sionary for each 55,000 people.
Cooperative Program
A highly satisfactory arrangement has been worked out in the various
states that makes the City Alissions Program and the Country Church
Program cooperative works participated in by the Home Mission Board
and the State Convention. Rural workers have been placed in a few
states and the work is making a good start.
The City Missions Program has far surpassed the expectations of its
most enthusiastic advocates. Missions have been established in 36 South-
ern cities. These missionaries work in cooperation with the churches in
the cities and enlist workers from the churches to do mission work. They
reported enlistment of 19,494 volunteer workers last year. They also
reported 6,279 professions and 4,666 additions to the churches.
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In the Armed Forces
More than 1,000 Southern Baptist ministers are serving in chaplaincies.
No man is accepted for this service until endorsed by his denomination.
The Home Mission Board is the certifying agency for Southern Baptist
preachers. Dr. Alfred Carpenter and his committee not only pass on
all applications, but they keep in touch with those who are appointed,
receive regular reports from them and render valuable assistance to the
men in the service. The Home Board furnishes financial assistance to the
work of the chaplains where needed. Many expressions of appreciation
come from the chaplains for the interest and assistance of our Board
given the men in service.
The Centennial Crusade
We look forward to the Centennial Crusade of Southern Baptists as
the most significant movement in the history of Southern Baptists.
The Home Mission Board was charged with the responsibility of pro-
moting the Evangelistic Crusade to win at least 1,000,000 souls to Christ
in 1945.
Through the providence of God and the gracious generosity of the
First Baptist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana, we have Dr. M. E. Dodd
to lead this Evangelistic Crusade. He comes with a most challenging, a
most all inclusive program, one that will sweep us off our feet unless we
get into it. Nothing that Southern Baptists might do in 1945 would make
as great contribution to a new world order as giving themselves to God
to win a million souls to Christ.
79. A special address on the subject "Evangelism as Preparation for a
Post-War World" was brought during the closing hour by M. E. Dodd, Shreve-
port, La.
80. The Committee on Enrollment reported a final registration of 1,670
messengers and 223 visitors, the largest Convention registration in many years.
81. Eugene Olive, Wake Forest, as Chairman of the Committee on Reso-
lutions made the following committee report and upon his motion it was
adopted :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS
Your Committee on Resolutions wishes to express for this Convention
sincere gratitude :
1. To Dr. C. C. Warren, pastor, and the membership of the First
Baptist Church for the use of their building and facilities, for their
numerous kindnesses in providing the conveniences and comforts that
were essential to the functioning of this crowded Convention ; to the staff
of workers, including ushers, janitors, committees, and all others who
shared in making provision for the sessions of this body.
2. To the pastors and members of all the Charlotte churches for their
hospitality and assistance in making our stay here pleasant.
3. To the hotels and places that have supplied us with food and other
physical comforts, and to the people of Charlotte who opened their homes
to visitors.
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4. To city officials, merchants, and other citizens who have provided
in one way and another for our needs.
5. To the Royal Ambassadors who have rendered efficient service as
pages.
6. To Mr. H. Grady Miller of Winston-Salem, who has led our sing-
ing; to Mrs. L. K. Wiley of this church, who has played the organ and
piano, and to all who have rendered special musical numbers, making
thereby contributions to our worship and inspiration.
7. To local newspapers, reporters and the press for giving full pub-
licity to important matters coming before this Convention.
8. Concerning the resolution introduced this morning calling for the
Convention to endorse "The Declaration of the Federation of the World,"
your committee recommends : '
First : That the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, meeting
in Charlotte on November 16, 1944, endorse the principle of world fed-
eration and the establishment of such institutions as may be necessary to
implement it in international life ;
Second : That a copy of this statement be sent to the Southern Bap-
tist Convention and to the Congress of the United States, requesting
each of these bodies to take positive action in support of World Federa-
tion and its establishment after this war.
9. Concerning the work of the American Bible Society :
Whereas, this Convention, together with the Southern Baptist Con-
vention, and other Baptist state conventions, has already recognized the
essential world-wide service rendered by the American Bible Society in
its missionary non-profit work of translation, publication and distribution
of the Scriptures, and has commended this work to the interest and
financial support of our people, and
Whereas, the American Bible Society today, in addition to the regular
work of supplying Scriptures for World-wide Missions, is also (1) pro-
viding New Testaments and other Scriptures for our Armed Forces, (2)
supplying Scriptures in many languages for War Prisoners and Refugees
and (3) preparing and sending large quantities of Scriptures to needy
people in the war areas as soon as those lands are set free.
Therefore be it resolved, in view of these needs and opportunities,
First, that we earnestly request our churches and our people to make
contributions to the work of the American Bible Society, all such con-
tributions to be sent through the regular channels to the Baptist state
headquarters office, designated for the American Bible Society, and
Second, that we approve a special offering for this work to be pro-
moted through the office of the General Secretary, and to be taken on a
day suggested by him, or at such other time as may be more appropriate
for the local churches.
82. In the closing minutes President Herring called attention to the mem-
bers of the Convention (see page 54) who had passed on since the last Con-
vention, and at his request the audience stood in silent memory, after which a
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special prayer was offered by President Herring. At the close of the prayer
it was agreed that the Committee on Order of Business for 1945 make a place
on the program for Memorials.
83. M. L. Banister, Oxford, presented the following motion which was
adopted :
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM COMMITTEE TO NOMINATE
MEMBERS OF BOARDS OF TRUSTEES
In view of certain conditions which we found to prevail regarding the
work of your Committee, and which we do not think it wise to introduce
to this Convention at this time we wish to make recommendations as
follows :
1. That this Committee be called into session at least once between
the sessions of the Convention, preferably two or three months before
the annual sessions of the Convention.
2. That a personal letter from the Chairman of the Committee be
written to each Committee member some time before the meeting of the
Committee, in which these members are asked to study the entire mem-
bership of these Boards of Trustees, as well as the Constitution of the
Convention, and any other information that might seem necessary to their
work.
3. That if recommendations, or suggestions, are to be made by the
Boards, Executive Committee, Secretary, or other persons, or persons,
they be placed in the hands of all the members of the Committee at least
a month before the first meeting of this Committee, in order that they
may at least have the opportunity to study these recommendations or
suggestions before they are asked to vote on them.
84. The closing song was "Bless Be the Tie That Binds." President Her-
ring declared the One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Convention adjourned, as
C. C. Warren, Charlotte, closed the session with prayer.
Ralph A. Herring, President.
Charles B. Deane, Recording Secretary.
November 16, 1944.
Charlotte, N. C.
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Xote : We call attention to the fact that this list is made up from
reports received from the associational clerks, to which we add any we
may know about. We make this explanation because we realize that
there are perhaps many who have not been included in the list.
ABEE, OSCAR ALBION Connelly Springs
BAITY, A. K North Wileksobro
BEACH, W. R Winston-Salem
BLE VINS, E Grassy Creek
BOSTICK, WADE D Shelby
BRACON, JAMES Mountain City, Tenn.
CALDWELL, CHARLES A Mount Holly
CH AUCE, SAM Hayesville
CHURCH, LEE J Summit
COLLIER, S. M Charlotte
CUTSH AW, RUSH Marble
DAVIS, FLOYD P ' Elizabeth City
DENTON, LINCOLN Connelly Springs
EGGERS, CLIFTON Marble
FOSTER, J. A Roaring River
GRIGGS, J. M Charlotte
H AIRE, P. H West Jefferson
HARRIS, RALPH Albemarle
HAWKINS, J. P Culberson
HAYWOOD, OSCAR Mt. Gilead
HOLDEN, C. S Winston-Salem
HUNEYCUTT, GEORGE A Faith
HUNT, J. E Haynham
HUNT, W. G Lumberton
JORDAN, J. R Star
LYON, T. M Traphill
McKAUGH AN, J. A Winston-Salem
MILLS. G. T Apex
NELSON, E. R Henderson
PALMER, THEODORE JACK Murphy
SUMMEY, J. A Salisbury
TATE, R. J Chesnee, S. C.
TRIVETT, J. S Fleetwood
TOTHERO W, JOHN Marble
TURNER, CLAUDE K Concord
TYNER, J. T Whiteville
WASHBURN, D. G Shelby
WEST, B. S West Asheville
WHITLEY, B. G Greensboro
WILCOX, D. H Winston-Salem
PROGRAM
NORTH CAROLINA PASTORS' CONFERENCE
First Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
November 13, 1944
General Theme
BAPTIST RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE POST-WAR ERA
E. R. Stewart, Windsor, Presiding
W. Earl Robinson, Saint Pauls, Song Leader
Mrs. W. Earl Robinson, Pianist
MONDAY AFTERNOON
2 :30 Praise and Prayer D. M. Clemmons, Reidsville
2 :45 Announcements
2:55 War-time Facts and Trends in Baptist Statistics
J. G. Blackburn, Lumberton
3:15 Music
3 :20 Stewardship Emphasis During Economic Prosperity
R. L. Councilman, Windsor
3 :40 Post- War Church Building Programs T. W. Fryer, New Bern
4 :00 The Church's Approach to the Temperance Question
I. G. Greer, Thomasville
4:20 Music
4 :25 Evangelism in the Post-War Years M. L. Mott, Winston-Salem
4:45 Adjourn
MONDAY EVENING
30 Praise and Worship J. F. Roach, Lewiston
40 Business
55 Preaching that Meets Tomorrow's Needs G. D. Heaton, Charlotte
15 Music
20 A Demobilized Army Remobilized for Christ... H. Y. Gamble, Statesville
40 A Faith that Triumphs B. E. Jones, Raleigh
Adjourn
J. W. Kincheloe, Jr., President
E. R. Stewart, Vice President
Z. A. Caudle, Secretary
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LIST OF MESSENGERS BY ASSOCIATIONS
ALEXANDER (11)— Mrs. J. M. Childers, Mrs. H. C. Colvard, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffie
Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Echerd, Taylorsville; Homer L. Good, Stony Point;
James B. Lail, E. C. Shoe, Lucy Thompson, A. E. Watts, Taylorsville.
ALLEGHANY (0)—
ANSON (3)— W. A. Knight, J. Tillman Lake, Wadesboro; J. M. Pickler, Wingate.
ASHE (2)— R. C. Ashley, Bina; Everette W. Powers, West Jefferson.
ATLANTIC (14)— C. A. Abernethy, Marshallberg; M. O. Alexander, Beaufort; A. L.
Benton, Swansboro; John H. Bunn, Morehead City; L. C. Chandler, Davis; W. B.
Cone, Maysville; William H. Covert, Pollocksville; Mr. and Mrs. M. Leslie Davis,
Beaufort; Thomas W. Fryer, New Bern; H. B. Hines, Oriental; Rev. and Mrs. C. W.
Kreamer, Dover; Mrs. N. L. McLawhon, New Bern.
AVERY (2)— Vilas Minton, R. T. Teague, Newland.
BEULAH (8) — J. N. Bowman, Roxboro; L. V. Coggins, Semora; J. F. Funderburk, Rox-
boro; R. S. Graves, Yancey ville; W. B. Guthrie, Burlington; B. C. Lamb, Danville,
Va.; J. W. Noell, Roxboro; Ralph O. Vernon, Blanch.
BLADEN (7)— D. T. Britt, Clarkton; Jasper Cole, White Oak; Wilbur Edwards, Lumber-
ton; R. J. Hall, Bladenboro; Rev. and Mrs. C. S. Smith, White Oak; L. L. Todd,
Bladenboro.
BLUE RIDGE (16)— W. E. Abrams, Marion; Jeta P. Baker, East Marion; Paul T.
Brock, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Chambers, R. I. Corbett, M. W. Gordon, Jr., W. F.
Grant, A. H. Mitchell, M. O. Owens, Jr., C. C. Parker, Marion; Rev. and Mrs. R. L.
Smith, D. C. Wesson, Old Fort; Rev. and Mrs. W. Gordon Wilson, Marion.
BRIER CREEK (CD-
BRUNSWICK (1)— A. L. Brown, Southport.
BRUSHY MOUNTAIN (3)— Dr. and Mrs. David E. Browning, North Wilkesboro; How-
ard J. Ford, Wilkesboro.
BUNCOMBE (37)— H. W. Baucom, St., Black Mountain; Clay R. Barnes, Asheville;
B. C. Blankenship, Swannanoa; C. R. Browning, Jr., A. J. Buckner, Mrs. C. M. Car-
ter, Rev. and Mrs. G. Carlton Cox, Rev. and Mrs. W. Perry Crouch, Asheville; Mr.
and Mrs. Harry R. Gasperson, Black Mountain; J. P. Goodman, J. B. Grice, Ashe-
ville; Ottis Hagler, Oteen; M. W. Hamrick, Asheville; William L. Hatcher, Ridgecrest;
Rev. and Mrs. F. W. Haynie, Asheville; Ralph R. Hensley, Candler; H. M. Hocutt,
Biltmore; Mary Humphrey, Asheville; Morgan A. Kizer, Weaverville; Mrs. W. W.
Lawton, Sr., Ridgecrest; H. R. Logan, Mrs. Harry Lominac, Asheville; Mr. and Mrs.
Perry Morgan, Ridgecrest; Johnnie Tiller, J. R. Owen, J. C. Pipes, George A. Roberts,
Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Rogers, A. P. Sprinkle, Nane Starnes, Asheville; Tom E. Wal-
ters, Ridgecrest.
BURNT SWAMP (5)— L. W. Jacobs, Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Locklear, Roy W. Maynor,
P. A. Underwood, Pembroke.
CABARRUS (59)— G. Fred Agee, Mrs. L. E. Barnhardt, Mrs. J. C. Baucom, W. L. Bost,
H. L. Bray, J. V. Buff, Nancy Callaway, John H. Connell, J. T. Dabbs, Concord;
B. A. Davis, Kannapolis; J. T. Davis, T. B. Deese, Concord; Mrs. M. L. Dorton,
Landis; Bessie Funderburk, W. T. Furr, R. F. Gardner, Kannapolis; H. F. Goodwin,
Concord; Herbert A. Greene, J. C. Gwaltney, Kannapolis; J. S. Harris, Mr. and Mrs.
Fletcher L. Hartsell, A. A. Hathcock, Rev. and Mrs. Grady J. Haynes, J. A. Heilig,
N. J. Helms, C. E. Herrin, Concord; H. B. Hiatt, Kannapolis; J. H. Hill, Salisbury;
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Honeycutt, Kannapolis; Dwight H. Ives, Concord; R. C. James,
Rev. and Mrs. W. Walter Jones, Kannapolis; H. G. Liner, Concord; W. M. McGinnis,
Kannapolis; R. P. Merritt, Mary Etta Morgan, W. W. Perry, Concord; Crawford W.
Poplin, B. E. Porter, P. L. Queen, E. C. Roach, Elizabeth Rodgers, Mrs. Lucy Rod-
well, Kannapolis; Mrs. Allison S. Rogers, Z. W. Rotan, W. B. Shropshire, Concord;
L. W. Simmons, Kannapolis; Mr. and Mrs. J. U. Stallings, E. S. Summers, W. V.
Tarlton, Concord; J. S. Tyson, Kannapolis; F. M. Weast, Mrs. M. L. Upright, Con-
cord; W. P. Yates, Kannapolis.
CALDWELL (31)— Mrs. D. D. Annas, Rhodhiss; H. S. Benfield, Lenoir; Rev. and Mrs.
J. G. Benfield, Ethel Boyle, Granite Falls; H. G. Bryant, Whitnel; Mrs. C. N. Buell,
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Elizabeth Campbell, Zeb Caudle, Lenoir; Charles F. Cook, Hudson; James G. Cozart,
Rhodhiss; Eller Dickson, Lenoir; Rev. and Mrs. P. D. Fletcher, Granite Falls; Paul
Hester, Hudson; G. W. Hollar, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Kerley, Granite Falls; E. C.
McCall, Mrs. J. W. McCall, Lenoir; Mrs. M. A. Mackie, Granite Falls; Dr. and Mrs.
O. R. Mangum, Lenoir; R. B. Miller, Hudson; W. R. Moss, Lenoir; T. E. Payne,
Hudson; L. B. Robinson, Edith Steele, Ruby Steele, Lenoir; S. A. Stroup, S. M.
Stroup, Granite Falls.
CAROLINA (15)— M. F. Arledge, Saluda; W. H. Davis, Lawrence A. Erwin, Hender-
sonville; B. G. Henry, Tryon; N. A. Melton, Columbus; Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Owen,
Saluda; Otto Parham, Balfour; George T. Pennell, Hendersonville; H. B. Phillips, For-
est City; A. V. Reese, O. M. Seigler, J. N. Shuford, Thomas E. Thompson, Hender-
sonville; E. M. Walker, Tuxedo.
CATAWBA RIVER (21)— Plennie Berry, Valdese; Phronsie Bizzell, Rev. and Mrs. F. A.
Bower, J. L. Bragg, Morganton; Rev. and Mrs. John P. Crouch, Valdese; E. M. Hair-
field, Elbert F. Hardin, Helen E. Harris, Carl Hemphill, Mrs. R. O. Huffman, Mrs.
J. B. Jones, R. F. Mayberry, Mrs. W. H. Reddish, Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Sprinkle,
J. O. Summerlin, C. R. Upton, Morganton; R. H. Weaver, Valdese; Mrs. F. H.
Wyatt, Morganton.
CHEROKEE (4) — Jarrett B. Blythe, Cherokee; Ben Bushyhead, Whittier; J. Jeter John-
son, William Welch, Cherokee.
CHOWAN (14)— W. C. Blue, Manteo; D. P. Brooks, Elizabeth City; Rev. and Mrs. J.
T. Byrum, Tyner; Rev. and Mrs. Howard G. Dawkins, Hertford; Mrs. J. R. Everett,
Elizabeth City; Rev. and Mrs. G. A. Martin, Roanoke Island; E H. Potts, W. R.
Stephens, Ronald E. Wall, Elizabeth City; Charles B. Williams, Shiloh; Roscoe Wynn,
Elizabeth City.
COLUMBUS (20)— J. W. Butler, Whiteville; Winfrey Davis, Tabor City; B. G. Early,
Cerro Gordo; Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Gaddy, Whiteville; Elbert N. Johnson, Fair Bluff;
S. N. Lamb, I. T. Newton, Whiteville; A. T. Peacock, Evergreen; Narine Peterson,
Delco; R. J. Rasberry, Hallsboro; Joseph Stanley, Mrs. Vance Thompson, Whiteville;
E. Evans Ulrich, Lake Waccamaw; Mrs. Arthur W. Williams, Herman Williams, Irvin
Williams, Mrs. J. Carl Williamson, Whiteville; H. B. Wyche, J. B. Wyche, Hallsboro.
EASTERN (14)— J. V. Case, Jr., Rose Hill; T. N. Cooper, Calypso; Mack Herring, Mt.
Olive; C. H. Hornsby, Clinton; L. L. Johnson, Magnolia; John W. Lambert, Mount Olive;
Dr. and Mrs. R. F. Marshburn, Salemburg; Mrs. W. P. Martin, Mount Olive; Rev.
and Mrs. J. C. Powell, G. Van Stephens, Warsaw; Edward A. Walker, Clinton; Mr.
and Mrs. O. E. Wilson, Mount Olive.
ELKIN (3) — Stephen Morrisett, J. L. Powers, Mrs. C. N. Myers, Elkin.
FLAT RIVER (4)— M. L. Banister, Oxford; E. W. Greene, Henderson; W. D. Poe,
Oxford; J. Marshall Walker, Stovall.
FRENCH BROAD (11)— Hoyt Blackwell, Mars Hill; J. J. Buckner, Marshall; Walt N.
Johnson, Salisbury; Wade Kelly, Marshall; M. H. Kendall, John A. McLeod, Dr. and
Mrs. R. L. Moore, Mars Hill; Rev. and Mrs. E. V. Plemmons, Marshall; L. L. Vann,
Mars Hill.
GASTON COUNTY (82)— J. T. Allen, Cherryville; J. W. Auten, D. M. Ballard, Cram-
erton; Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Barnes, W. Ward Barr, Rev. and Mrs. O. H. Bolch,
L. E. Bookhout, Billy Page Brafford, Clyde Brafford, Gastonia; Naomi Braswell, Cram-
erton; Mrs. R. U. Brooks, Lowell; Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Bryson, East Gastonia; D. W.
Bumgardner, Belmont; E. J. Caldwell, North Belmont; Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Cashwell,
N. C. Carter, Gastonia; A. E. Clemmons, Lowell; Rev. and Mrs. L. S. Clark, Mrs.
Marvin Clark, Mount Holly; R. R. Cook, Cramerton; Mrs. I. E. Craig, Stanley; Rev.
and Mrs. E. S. Elliott, Cherryville; Mrs. W. J. Francis, Belmont; C. V. Garner, East
Gastonia; W. Luther Hawkins, Cherryville; Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Hicks, Belmont; Dr.
and Mrs. W. F. Hinesley, Gastonia; W. Arthur Hoffman, West Gastonia; Roy H.
Hovis, Belmont; E. V. Hudson, Cramerton; John W. Hughston, Jr., Belmont; Mrs.
J. A. Hunsucker, McAdenville; Mrs. Katie L. Jenkins, Gastonia; Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Johnson, Mount Holly; A. W. Kincaid, Bessemer City; Mrs. William L. Lanier, Bel-
mont; Rev. and Mrs. F. H. Leatherwood, Mount Holly; A. V. Ledford, Gastonia; R. H.
Lineberger, Stanley; Mrs. R. L. Lofin, Mount Holly; E. T. Mauney, Stanley; Mrs.
Carrie Montgomery, Mount Holly; Esther Moon, Cherryville; Mrs. Paul Moss, East
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Gastonia; Ola M. Moton, Belmont; Floyd J. Noblett, Bessemer City; R. R. Payseur,
C. E. Phillips, Gastonia; Mrs. George Rankin, McAdenville; H. H. Roberts, Lowell;
H. S. Rotan, Cramerton; Bessie Rumfelt, McAdenville; Mrs. M. T. Saunders, Bessemer
City; Mrs. W. H. Saunedrs, East Gastonia; Mrs. E. C. Sisk, Bessemer City; Rev. and
Mrs. W. C. Sledge, Lowell; Rev. and Mrs. Ernest M. Smith, McAdenville; Howard
Smith, Gastonia; Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Snow, Stanley; M. W. Stallings, Lowell; A. C.
Taylor, Stanley; J. Ned Taylor, Bessemer City; A. E. Teague, Gastonia; J. L. Vip-
perman, Dallas; Mrs. B. G. Weathers, Stanley; Mrs. I. M. Wilson, Lowell; Mr. and
Mrs. C. S. Withers, Gastonia; Doc Wilbanks, Hardin; Miss Lucy Williams, Bessemer
City.
GREEN RIVER (18)— L. P. Barnette, Union Mills; L. G. Blanton, Spindale; Mr. and
Mrs. Homer E. Brady, Columbus; E. E. Davis, E. H. Freeman, Spindale; Z. Miller
Freeman, Forest City; Mrs. E. B. Hill, Spindale; Rev. and Mrs. Irby B. Jackson,
Rutherfordton; F. W. Jarvis, Spindale; Mrs. W. W. Nanney, Rutherfordton; James W.
Ray, Spindale; B. P. Scruggs, Rutherfordton; Mrs. E. L. Simmons, D. M. Sinclair,
Spindale; J. J. Tarlton, Rutherfordton; W. R. Wells, Spindale.
HAYWOOD (17)— Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Bowers, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Clark, Canton;
L. G. Elliott, Waynesville; Mrs. Fred Fore, P. H. Greene, Canton; S. Madge Lewis,
Waynesville; J. Doyle Miller, Canton; J. R. Morgan, Waynesville; Mrs. W. B. Norris,
Ellie O'Diear, Canton; T. H. Parris, Clyde; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Patrick, Waynesville;
George C. Rhinehart, Canton; Manuel C. Wyatt, Waynesville.
JOHNSTON (32)— E. Y. Averett, Benson; Edith Averette, Raleigh; J. Wade Baker,
Selma; O. E. Bearfoot, Benson; Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Caudle, Raleigh; J. D. Creech,
Smithfield; Mrs. W. P. Creech, Clayton; Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Davis, Four Oaks;
R. E. Earp, Selma; Cline D. Ellis, Smithfield; Tom M. Freeman, Selma; C. L. Gil-
lespie, H. M. Hall, Benson; Mrs. B. A. Hocutt, Clayton; Nina Johnson, Raleigh;
Bolton Jones, Smithfield; Mrs. Jim Lane, Raleigh; Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Langston, Clay-
ton; J. Willie Lee, Willow Springs; C. L. Massey, Smithfield; H. E. Mitchiner, Wil-
son's Mills; Mrs. L. C. Poole, Raleigh; Grace Smith, Clayton; Wesley Sorrell, Raleigh;
Mrs. E. M. Stott, Garner; Hugh L T pchurch, Wilson's Mills; Rosaline Walker, Garner;
Eph Whisenhunt, Clayton; Adam J. Whitley, Jr., Smithfield.
KINGS MOUNTAINS (58)— W. L. Allen, Boiling Springs; B. F. Austin, Kings Moun-
tain; W. A. Ayers, W. P. Biggerstaff, Jesse Blalock, Shelby; Rev. and Mrs. C. B.
Bobbitt, G. A. Bridges, Kings Mountain; J. A. Brock, Shelby; Mr. and Mrs. Delbert
Byars, Kings Mountain; D. Boyd Cannon, Shelby; J. R. Cantrell, Boiling Springs;
J. W. Costner, Lawndale; C. C. Crow, Mrs. T. L. Dedmon, Horace Easom, Henry B.
Edwards, Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Elam, Shelby; P. L. Elliott, Boiling Springs; T. W.
Fogleman, Grover; Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gold, Kings Mountain; Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
Greene, Mrs. Belle H. Grigg, C. Rush Hamrick, Shelby; Hugh F. Harrill, Moores-
boro; G. V. Hawkins, Mrs. D. L. Houser, Shelby; Blanche Hoyle, Lawndale; W. H.
Jackson, Shelby; J. L. Jenkins, Boiling Springs; Byron Keeter, Kings Mountain; A. M.
Kiser, Waco; Mrs. L. H. Ledford, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ledford, C. A. Morrison, O.
M. Mull, Shelby; Rev. and Mrs. L. C. Pinnix, Kings Mountain; D. F. Putnam,
Shelby; Earl M. Redding, Gastonia; J. R. Roberts, Kings Mountain; Rev. and Mrs.
Lawrence Roberts, J. Worth Silver, Mrs. Rush Stroup, J. W. Suttle, Shelby; J. L.
Teague, Kings Mountain; D. A. Tedder, H. E. Waldrop, Zeno Wall, Lee B. Weath-
ers, Shelby; W. A. Williams, Joe Lee Woodward, Kings Mountain.
LIBERTY (57)— Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Atkinson, Erlanger; Mrs. Beamer H. Barnes, Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Blair, Thomasville; Rev. and Mrs. J. Roy Clifford, Mrs. Irving Cooper,
Lexington; Mrs. Ben Cox, J. A. Cox, Thomasville; Mr. and Mrs. Carey J. Davis, Mr.
and Mrs. W. P. Davis, Kernersville; J. W. Dickens, Lexington; C. C. Edinger, South-
mont; Thomas B. Flowe, Thomasville; Mrs. Z. V. Fulbright, Lexington; Dr. and Mrs.
I. G. Greer, Thomasville; Mrs. B. L. Hames, Erlanger; Catherine Hilliard, F. G. John-
son, H. V. Kinney, Lexington; R. L. Kizer, Thomasville; W. H. Lomax, Linwood;
Dr. and Mrs. W. K. McGee, Thomasville; Mrs. A. G. McCormick, Winston-Salem;
Sallie L. McCracken, J. A. McMillan, Thomasville; G. W. Miller, Lexington; Rev.
and Mrs. B. A. Mitchell, Kernersville; G. E. Morefield, Salisbury; Rev. and Mrs. J.
A. Neilson, Thomasville; Mrs. J. B. Powell, Erlanger; Rev. and Mrs. V. W. Sears,
Thomasville; Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Sharpe, Lexington; Mr. and Mrs. Romulus Skaggs,
Thomasville; Mrs. Daisy Spurgeon, High Point; H. M. Stroup, Denton; Mr. and Mrs.
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C. V. Talbert, Salisbury; N. C. Teague, Lexington; Mrs. W. E. Tomlinson, Thomas-
ville; Mrs. J. W. Turtle, Wallburg; Mr. and Mrs. Carroll C. Wall, R. C. Wall, Lex-
ington; Mrs. J. L. Ward, Jr., Thomasville; Rev. and Mrs. Chas. S. Young, Lexington.
LITTLE RIVER (34) — Rev. and Mrs. Laurie J. Atkinson, Lillington; Mattie Bain, H. M.
Baker, Coats; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Barefoot, Angier; L. P. Beck, Broadway; Mrs.
Charles H. Brunk, Coats; J. C. Bullock, Lillington; Leslie H. Campbell, Buie's Creek;
L. L. Coats, Lilian Draughan, Coats; C. W. Flowers, Angier; Sam F. Hudson, Lilling-
ton; E. C. Keller, Dunn; A. E. Lynch, Buie's Creek; Rev. and Mrs. Forest Maxwell,
Erwin; S. Lewis Morgan, Jr., Dunn; Mrs. Mamie L. Morgan, Angier; Eugene O'Quinn,
Mary Lee Page, W. H. Parrish, Lillington; Alice Patterson, Lottie Patterson. Zula
Rogers, Mamers; C. E. Ruffin, Broadway; J. A. Senter, Lillington; B. O. Slaughter,
Dunn; W. M. Thomas, Swans Station; R. L. Whipple, Buie's Creek; J. E. Womble,
Lillington; Rev. and Mrs. Harry D. Wood, Jr., Angier.
MACON (3)— Thorn N. Carter, Highlands; Lysbeth Cox, J. F. Marcham, Franklin.
MECKLENBURG (123)— Mrs. G. R. Abernethy, Mrs. J. F. Alexander, H. G. Ashcraft,
C. R. Austin, Catherine W. Bates, Charlotte; W. C. Bearden, Paw Creek; C. L. Big-
gerstaff, Mrs. Raymond Blanton, David E. Bobbitt, Charlotte; Mrs. A. M. Boyette,
Matthews; Rev. and Mrs. S. K. Brazil, J. H. Bridges, Mrs. W. D. Briggs, Claude C.
Broach, Charlotte; L. M. Broom, Paw Creek; A. S. Bumgardner, Guy T. Carswell,
Mrs. W. L. Chapman, Mrs. J. W. Clamp, Mrs. S. M. Collier, J. M. Crowe, J. J.
Cummet, Charlotte; J. E. M. Davenport, Pineville; Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Dawson, R. S.
Dickson, J. W. Digh, Mrs. H. Y. Ditto, Charlotte; R. Love Dixon, Huntersville; Paul
K. Drum, Cornelius; E. R. Echerd, Jr., Charlotte; N. B. Featherstone, Paw Creek;
D. W. Fink, Mrs. Edith Fink, Charlotte; W. Justine Flowe, Concord; Mrs. W. B.
Frink, Matthews; Harry H. Gardner, Louisville, Ky. ; S. Q. Garrison, Mrs. E. B.
Gentry, Mrs. J. C. Goodman, Frank Grigg, J. P. Hackney, E. W. Haight, Fred W.
Hartsell, George D. Heaton, James E. Hill, George L. Hocutt, Mrs. B. L. Hocutt,
Mrs. J. T. Holder, W. R. Hopkins, Mrs. W. Vance Howard, G. D. Hoyle, Charlotte;
Mrs. W. F. Jackson, Pineville; Mr. and Mrs. W. M. James, Charlotte; J. Clarence
Jones, Newell; Mrs. Mary Keeter, Charlotte; E. E. Kerley, Huntersville; H. C. Kessiah,
John R. Knott, Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Lawton, Jr., Mrs. F. D. Lethco, Mrs. W. C.
Link, Luther Little, Charlotte; Mrs. H. F. McMann, Matthews; Mrs. C. C. Martin,
C. L. Mason, Charlotte; Herman G. Matheney, Huntersville; J. L. Mauney, Pineville;
J. M. Medlin, Mrs. R. E. Mingus, Charlotte; R. D. Mooney, Davidson; Alma E.
Moose, J. D. Moose, Mrs. J. E. Morris, Guy M. Moser, Mrs. John P. Motsinger,
Charlotte; H. S. Mumford, Matthews; Mrs. E. W. Myers, Charlotte; A. W. Payseur,
Hawk Creek; C. N. Peeler, Mrs. W. J. Phifer, Mrs. B. U. Pigg, C. W. Propst, L. R.
Pruette, W. A. Pruett, Mrs. T. F. Ramseur, Fred C. Roberts, Charlotte; T. C. Robert-
son, Pineville; P. C. Rodwell, Mrs. W. L. Ruff, Mrs. W. E. Ruppelt, E. V. Sapp,
J. D. Sapp, Rev. and Mrs. A. G. Sargeant, J. M. Scarborough, J. T. Sisk, Mrs. H. M.
Short, E. L. Spivey, John S. Staton, Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Stephenson, Mrs. G. G.
Stockbridge, Mrs. C. H. Stockton, J. H. Strickland, L. D. Taylor, Mrs. A. R. Threatt,
Charlotte; J. P. Thomas, Huntersville; Mrs. Cleave Thompson, Mrs. W. W. Turner,
Preston S. Vann, Woodrow Wall, C. C. Warren, O. F. Watts, Mrs. J. N. White, Mrs.
I. W. Williams, William Harrison Williams, A. B. Wood, J. Clyde Yates.
MITCHELL (3)— W. T. Baucom, Spruce Pine; R. D. Campbell, Bakersville; Roy D.
Keller, Spruce Pine.
MONTGOMERY (12)— Mrs. G. C. Dixon, Mount Gilead; L. S. Edwards, Mrs. W. T.
Ferrell, Troy; Frances Haywood, Mount Gilead; W. D. Haywood, Candor; Theo Mc-
Queen, Troy; Mrs. H. A. Nanney, Rev. and Mrs. Charles E. Stevens, Mount Gilead;
Rev. and Mrs. Charles B. Trammel, Miss Margaret Wright, Troy.
MOUNT ZION (84)— Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Abernethy, Hillsboro; W. C. Adkinson,
Swepsonville; Rev. and Mrs. Henry B. Anderson, Durham; Mrs. R. H. Andrews,
Burlington; Ernest W. Bailes, Durham; Dr. and Mrs. Das Kelley Barnett, Chapel
Hill; Mrs. H. S. Boyce, Durham; H. S. Branch, Saxapahaw; C. E. Byrd, Durham;
Guy S. Cain, Graham; N. A. Catlett, Cary; Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cheek, Trela D. Col-
lins, C. T. Council, Durham; Emma Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cox, Graham; Florence
Crutchfield, John Edwards, W. W. Edwards, Mrs. C. D. Faucette, Mrs. H. L. Fergu-
son, Ella Sue Gravitte, Rev. and Mrs. H. G. Hammett, Mrs. C. L. Hayward, F. D.
Hemphill, Durham; Garland A. Hendricks, Apex; Owen F. Herring, Robert D. Holle-
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man, Durham; A. C. Howell, Chapel Hill; J. M. Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. J. Samuel
Johnson; Mrs. T. Neil Johnson, Chapel Hill; Rev. and Mrs. Charles Jollay, Mrs. G.
N. W. Jones, Durham; Rev. and Mrs. A. D. Kinnett, Burlington; John H. Knight,
Mebane; J. H. Lackey, Alamance; Mrs. Beverly Lake, Frank H. Marshall, Mr. and
Mrs. C. J. Moody, Rev. and Mrs. B. E. Morris, Durham; Luther A. Nail, Burling-
ton; Rev. and Mrs. J. Winston Pearce, Dr. and Mrs. D. R. Perry, Durham; D. C.
Phillips, Mrs. Guy Phillips, Chapel Hill; Mrs. J. R. Poindexter, Burlington; William
H. Poole, Carrboro; J. H. Rice, Chapel Hill; Alice Rowe, C. N. Royal, Durham;
Mrs. Tom Simmons, Graham; Charles C. Smith, Durham; M. D. Smith, Haw River;
C. H. Stanfield, Burlington; W. E. Stanley, Durham; A. P. Stephens, Lula Mae
Teague, Burlington; Z. O. Teel, Mildred Thomas, Mrs. O. G. Tillman, Durham; Mrs.
J. H. Vernon, Burlington; Mr. and Mrs. Basil M. Watkins, Durham; Mrs. W. M.
Watts, Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Waugh, Jr., Burlington; Howard L. Weeks, Chapel Hill;
A. P. Williams, Graham; Mrs. R. B. Wilkins, Durham; E. D. Young, West Hillsboro.
NEUSE (13)— A. B. Alderman, W. R. Bunn, Rev. and Mrs. B. L. Davis, Snow Hill;
Worth C. Grant, Mrs. J. E. Hart, Kinston; J. C. Hough, Goldsboro; T. C. Johnson,
Lucile Reed, Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Reed, Kinston; Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Smith,
Goldsboro.
NEW FOUND (CD-
NEW SOUTH RIVER (30)— G. N. Ashley, Salemburg; Judge and Mrs. J. Abner Barker,
Roseboro; Mrs. W. M. Beckwith, Fayetteville; J. F. Blackman, Buie's Creek; Mrs.
George P. Brevard, Mrs. E. M. Brooks, Jr., M. W. Chapman, William B. Corbett,
Waldo D. Early, Mrs. Jessica C. Frommelt, Louis S. Gaines, Fayetteville; J. M. Gibbs,
Stedman; T. D. Hatcher, Fayetteville; Ethel Herring, Roseboro; A. P. Howard, Salem-
burg; C. R. Johnson, Fayetteville; Horace E. Jones, Dunn; Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Jones,
Salemburg; H. P. Naylor, Roseboro; Thadius Naylor, Clinton; John A. Oates, Fay-
etteville; Delia Poe, Roseboro; C. Parker Poole, E. N. Teague, C. H. Trueblood,
Fayetteville; J. H. Warren, Clinton; T. H. Williams, Raleigh; C. W. Myrick, Fayette-
ville.
PEE DEE (48)— Mrs. Vera T. Allen, Bruce Benton, Rockingham; Mrs. L. E. Benton,
Laurinurg; Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Carroll, Hamlet; Mrs. T. L. Caudle, B. M. Coving-
ton, Wadesboro; W. H. Covington, Rockingham; Mrs. J. M. Davis, Wadesboro; Mr.
and Mrs. Charles B. Deane, C. O. Funderburk, Rockingham; "J. J. Gray, E. B. Gun-
ter, Hamlet; Mrs. R. L. Hardison, Wadesboro; Mr. and Mrs. J.. W. Hollis, Laurinburg;
James D. Jones, Wadesboro; Mrs. G. H. Kelly, Rockingham; Eugene Knight, Morven;
Mrs. F. M. Little, Mrs. H. W. Little, Mrs. Ruth A. Lyon, Wadesboro; Rev. and Mrs.
O. W. McManus, Gibson; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Matthews, Laurinburg; J. C. Meigs,
Pageland, S. C. ; Donald G. Myers, Wadesboro; Mrs. Florence Pope, Rev. and Mrs.
Edwin F. Perry Rockingham; John Racliffe, Jr., Wadesboro; R. D. Riggins, J. Marvin
Smith, Rockingham; G. A. Stafford, Hamlet; Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Tadlock, Rockingham;
H. P. Taylor, Wadesboro; C. H. Teague, Hamlet; J. R. Thomas, Rockingham; Mr. and
Mrs. Joe W. Thompson, Hamlet; Dr. and Mrs. James B. Turner, Laurinburg; Rev.
and Mrs. J. B. Willis, Miriam Willis, Hamlet.
PIEDMONT (58)— J. M. Allred. Pomona; Neil J. Armstrong, Greensboro; Mrs. Grace
Andrews, High Point; Henry H. Blanchard, L. Grady Burgiss, Greensboro; Mrs. W.
F. Clayton, High Point; Rev. and Mrs. D. M. Clemmons, Elaine Clemmons, Reidsville;
J. B. Clifton, C. G. Coe, Greensboro; Rev. and Mrs. O. P. Dix, High Point; J.
Huber Dixon, Pleasant Garden; A. H. Dunning, Laura Durant, Greensboro; C. M.
Floyd, High Point; Arthur S. Gillespie, Wake Forest; Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Gillespie,
Reidsville; Mrs. C. S. Grayson, High Point; Mrs. H. I. Grimes, Ray W. Harrington,
Greensboro; Julian S. Hopkins, W. Wilbur Hutchins, High Point; Philip Hutchinson,
Greensboro; R. P. Jackson, High Point; Wade H. James, Fred Koerber, Greensboro;
A. L. McGee, High Point; John McGinnis, Reidsville; Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Martin,
Greensboro; Hughey O. Miller, High Point; C. M. Oates, Pomona; D. W. Overby,
Reidsville; Thelma Patrick, High Point; Mrs. J. I. Phillips, Greensboro; L. J. Rainey,
High Point; S. L. Riddle, Greensboro; C. C. Roberts, Thomasville; T. L. Sasser,
Greensboro; Mrs. C. E. Siceloff, C. M. Scott, Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Smith, High
Point; Mabel Starnes, Greensboro; Hubert M. Stokes, High Point; Mrs. O. B. Teague,
James R. Thompson, Mrs. Charles Tucker, Dr. and Mrs. J. Clyde Turner, Charles H.
Walker, Greensboro; George H. Wallace, High Point; Milton Warf, Reidsville; James
E. Wiggs, Wilson Woodcock, Greensboro.
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PILOT MOUNTAIN (71)— Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Adams, King J. Brown, Irving E. Car-
lyle, Mrs. Floyd Carter, Rev. and Mrs. Avery M. Church, L. Vernon Connell, Paul
E. Crandall, J. A. Crews, J. J. Currin, Mrs. J. Neal Davis, Winston-Salem; J. P. Davis,
Leaksville; Mrs. C. W. Dover, Winston-Salem; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. East, Spray;
Davie Belle Eaton, Winston-Salem; Robert C. Foster, Leaksville; Mrs. J. B. "Futrell,
J. F. Gant, Winston-Salem; Clyde W. Glosson, Kernersville; W. R. Grigg, Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Gresham, Smith Hagaman, Winston-Salem; L. C. Hall, Mayodan; Rev.
and Mrs. James M. Hayes, Mrs. J. E. Hedrick, Mrs. B. T. Henderson, Ralph A.
Herring, Ronald D. Hicks, J. T. Joyner, Jr., Mrs. J. Lee Keiger, Winston-Salem;
Mrs. T. B. Knight, Madison; J. E. Kirk, Lewisville; Tom S. Lawrence, J. S. Lynch,
M. E. Manuel, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Mary Meadows, King; V. R. Meadows, Pilot
Mountain; H. Grady Miller, Winston-Salem; Raymond E. Moore, Rural Hall; Rev. and
Mrs. W. H. Moore, Winston-Salem; Irene Money, Mayodan; Ora Motsinger, Marshall
L. Mott, Winston-Salem; E. T. Parham, Madison; C. E. Parker, Mrs. J. A. Roddick,
Mrs. J. J. Roddick, K. E. Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Scoff, Mrs. Oscar E. Shouse,
Mrs. Ida Sink, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Slade, W. E. Southern, Rev. and Mrs. Chas. H.
Stevens, Winston-Salem; M. C. Swicegood, Clemmons; James E. Swinson, Hanes;
Burley S. Turner, Winston-Salem; Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Tyner, Leaksville; Mrs. Paul
Wilson, Winston-Salem; Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Wilson, Rural Hall; Mrs. Geo. C. Yar-
brough, Winston-Salem.
RALEIGH (87)— Kathryn Abee, Raleigh; O. L. Beddingfield, Cary; Randolph Benton,
Wake Forest; T. W. Brewer, Raleigh; S. W. Brewer, Wake Forest; Margaret Bright,
New Hill; Mrs. B. L. Brown, J. J. Buffaloe, Raleigh; A. G. Bullard, Cary; Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Bunn, Dr. and Mrs. Carlyle Campbell, W. C. Card, L. L. Carpenter,
Raleigh; J. G. Carroll, Wake Forest; J. C. Castlebury, Apex; Dr. and Mrs. Z. M.
Caveness, H. E. Cherry, Rev. and Mrs. John L. Coley, Joe S. Correll, Mary Currin,
Raleigh; J. Allen Easley, Wake Forest; Mrs. J. S. Farmer, Virginia M. Franks,
L. E. M. Freeman, Claude F. Gaddy, Leah Godwin, Raleigh; C. O. Greene, Cary; Jane
Greene, Raleigh; Rev. and Mrs. George J. Griffin, Zebulon; J. N. Hare, Apex; L. R.
Harrill, Raleigh; Rev. and Mrs. Bruce V. Hartsell, Franklinton; R. L. Hughes,
Youngsville; A. W. Ieard, Henderson; Don R. Jackson, Raleigh; C. J. Jackson, Wake
Forest; Broadus E. Jones, Raleigh; I. O. Jones, Wake Forest; Mrs. Doris Joyner,
Raleigh; Thurman Kitchin, Wake Forest; Albert S. Lamm, Bunn; E. L. Layfield,
Raleigh; John R. Link, Apex; LeRoy Martin, W. D. Martin, W. Reid Martin, Raleigh;
J. T. Maynard, Cary; J. L. Memory, Jr., Wake Forest; F. Orion Mixon, Law M.
Mobley, L. L. Morgan, Mrs. Myra Motley, C. G. Mumford, Raleigh; Rev. and Mrs.
J. Gray Murray, Cary; T. L. Newton, Raleigh; Eugene Olive, Wake Forest; L. Bun
Olive, Raleigh; W. M. Page, Fuquay Springs; George W. Paschal, Wake Forest;
Louise Paschall, Clarence Poe, Raleigh; R. D. Poe, Apex; Mrs. W. I. Powell, R. H.
Satterfield, Raleigh; Fon H. Scofield, Wake Forest; W. A. Seagraves, Holly Springs;
B. A. Senter, Raleigh; Mrs. A. T. Seymour, Sr., Apex; Lee C. Sheppard, J. A.
Sikes, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Simms, Sr., I. L. Stell, Mrs. A. F. Taylor, S. F. Teague,
Carl M. Townsend, Raleigh; George E. Upchurch, Jr., Apex; W. H. Weatherspoon,
J. M. Wilburn, W. L. Wyatt, Raleigh.
RANDOLPH (12)— Mr. and Mrs. Waldo C. Cheek, Asheboro; W. H. Connor, Central
Falls; P. C. Gantt, Ramseur; Anne R. Harris, R. E. Heath, G. H. King, Rev. and
Mrs. H. K. Masteller, Asheboro; J. I. Memory, Randleman; G. F. Settlemyre, C. L.
Smith, Central Falls.
ROANOKE (52)— Mrs. Frank Armstrong, Sr., Nashville; Rev. and Mrs. Clyde E. Bau-
com, Wilson; G. W. Bullard, Rocky Mount; Ross Cadle, Enfield; Rev. and Mrs. A.
Hartwell Campbell, Greenville; E. C. Chamblee, Farmville; Rev. and Mrs. E. G. Cole,
Winterville; John T. Coley, Rocky Mount; Richard L. Collins, Wilson; G. N. Cowan,
Rocky Mount; C. E. Crawford, Hobgood; Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Daniel, Wilson;
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Davis, Farmville; Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Finlator, Weldon;
Ben C. Fisher, Nashville; A. Lincoln Fulk, Washington; W. F. Gentry, Nashville;
W. E. Goode, Scotland Neck; Ethel Guest, Williamston; Mrs. M. C. Gulley, Nash-
ville; Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Hardaway, Greenville; Ira S. Harrell, Fountain; Mrs.
Herbert Harris, Ayden; J. P. Harris, Bethel; J. K. Henderson, Scotland Neck; Lelia
Higgs, Greenville; L. D. Holt, Bethel; Robert Lee Humber, Greenville; M. M. John-
son, Spring Hope; W. I. Johnson, Ayden; Robert Joyner, Farmville; J. W. Kincheloe,
Rocky Mount; Gordon E. Lee, Farmville; H. C. Lowder, Rocky Mount; Mrs. Gilbert
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Peel, Greenville; Lee A. Phillips, Plymouth; Charles J. Shields, Scotland Neck; John
Sledge, Nashville; Mrs. Ola Tucker, Greenville; H. E. Walden, Jr., Rocky Mount;
B. Marshall White-Hurst, Roanoke Rapids; J. D. Williams, Tarboro; Mrs. J. L. Win-
stead, Greenville; L. M. Wooiweaver, Rocky Mount; Pearl York, Scotland Neck.
ROBESON (31) — J. Glenn Blackburn, Lumberton; E. B. Booker, Fayetteville; Rev. and
Mrs. T. Paul Deaton, Parkton; Mrs. Elizabeth Doares, Maxton; Dr. and Mrs. C. H.
Durham, G. P. Hedgepeth, Lumberton ; E. L. Hedgepeth, Fairmont; R. A. Hedgepeth,
Lumberton; Rev. and Mrs. Carey P. Herring, Fairmont; A. J. Holmes, Lumberton;
Joel S. Johnson, Fairmont; Mr. and Mrs. Abner Knoles, Raeford; R. A. Mclntyre,
Lumberton; Mrs. Bessie Nicholson, Maxton; Mamie Niven, Raeford; Mr. and Mrs.
Rogert R. Pitman, Barnesville; Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Rhyne, Lumberton; Rev. and
Mrs. W. Earl Robinson, St. Pauls; Mrs. Ivey H. Shankle, Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Whis-
nant, Raeford; W. R. Tyner, Lowe; Rev. and Mrs. Forrest L. Young, Maxton.
ROWAN (39) — Rev. and Mrs. Smoot Baker, Spencer; Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Bland, Rev.
and Mrs. Milton L. Braun, Salisbury; Tom W. Bray, Faith; A. B. Bumgarner, Kan-
napolis; Glenn Choate, Salisbury; D. A. Clanton, Kannapolis; Arch C. Cree, H. T.
Davis, Salisbury; T. A. Dennis, China Grove; Rev. and Mrs. D. W. Digh, Archie
Ellis, Salisbury; J. C. Hill, China Grove; B. G. Hasty, Mrs. Gordon Hasty, D. L.
Hendrix, Salisbury; Mrs. J. G. Hicks, Spencer; J. O. Holt, Salisbury; John G. Hicks,
Spencer; R. N. Huneycutt, Salisbury; I. J. Hunter, A. L. Jarrell, J. L. Kirk, Rev.
and Mrs. W. R. Kiser, Salisbury; W. A. Loudermilch, Spencer; D. H. Lowder, Coy
R. Miller, C. R. Myers, C. A. Rhyne, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Trexler, Rev. and Mrs.
W. H. Walton, W. D. Williamson, Salisbury.
SANDY CREEK (24)— Rev. and Mrs. K. E. Bryant, Pittsboro;- E. W. Byerly, Bear
Creek; Mrs. Colin Churchill, V. M. Dorsett, Siler City; Rev. and Mrs. Yancey C.
Elliott, Sanford; Sam J. Erwin, Southern Pines; Alfred F. Gibson, Siler City; S. C.
Glosson, Moncure; William H. Griffin, Pittsboro; E. M. Harris, Aberdeen; Victor R.
Johnson, Pittsboro; Wilbur L. Mclver, Sanford; Mrs. E. C. Macey, West End; Roy
A. Morris, Sanford; Carl Lee Ousley, Siler City; Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Rogers, Sr.,
Sanford; J. Fred Stimson, Southern Pines; Clyde P. Stinson, Goldston; Rev. and Mrs.
H. F. Stegall, Jonesboro; Walter L. Warfford, Carthage.
SANDY RUN (31)— Rev. and Mrs. M. D. Blanton, Forest City; Mrs. J. D. Brown, Cliff-
side; Mrs. J. E. Cargill, F. E. Dabney, Henrietta; W. W. Davidson, Boiling Springs;
Blanche DeBrule, Henrietta; Ardalene Gramlich, Forest City; Rev. and Mrs. R. M.
Hagler, Caroleen; Mrs. C. P. Hamrick, Cliff side; Elijah Hamrick, Ellenboro; R. E.
Hollifield, W. S. Huntley, Forest City; G. L. Jones, Ellenboro, Olin Kendrick, Forest
City; Sanford L. Lamm, Avondale; Rev. and Mrs. J. L. McCluney, Henrietta; Mrs.
Chas. McCurry, Cliff side; A. M. McKinney, Ellenboro; C. C. Matheny, Forest City;
Rev. and Mrs. O. D. Moore, Cliff side; Joe Parsons, Spindale; R. A. Pate, Bostic; Rev.
and Mrs. W. E. Pettit, Mrs. Teny Smart, Yates Smith, Forest City; C. W. Walker,
Mooresboro.
SOUTH FORK (59)— Rev. and Mrs. Morris Baker, Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Bandy, Lin-
colton; Mrs. R. K. Benfield, Hickory; Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Burrus, Newton; J. A.
Burris, Lincolnton; Robert Clark, Maiden; M. G. Cloer, Alexis; Mrs. G. P. Coulter.
Newton; Mr. and Mrs. Hubert M. Craig, Lincolnton; Guthrie Colvard, M. S. Cropps,
Hickory; J. E. Crump, Conover; Susie Danner, Catawba; Bertis Fair, Newton; T. C.
Fowler, Conover; Mrs. L. P. Fraus, Hickory; Mrs. J. H. Gilley, Maiden; Mr. and
Mrs. L. L. Hatfield, Hickory; Mrs. J. C. Heffner, Maiden; C. H. Henderson, Chas. C.
Holland, Hickory; W. C. Laney, Brookford; Mrs. Mary L. Lawrence, Hickory; Rev.
and Mrs. M. L. Lewis, Bruce B. Littleton, Lincolnton; R. G. Mace, Catawba; H. L.
Phillips, Connelly Springs; J. Louis Price, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Pruitt, Hickory;
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Rhoads, Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Rimmer, Rev. and Mrs. Henry C.
Rogers, Lincolnton; Wm. C. Sand, Maiden; Mrs. J. D. Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Sharpe, Newton; R. C. Shearin, Hickory; Haskell L. Sides, Ernest Sisk, Lincolnton;
Texie Sowers, Newton; Sarah P. Stephens, E. F. Sullivan, Mrs. Mary Wallace, Hick-
ory; A. R. Waters, Catawba; Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Woodall, Maiden; Rev. and Mrs.
O. S. Ulmer, Newton; W. D. Yelton, Hickory.
SOUTH MOUNTAIN (3)— John E. Carter, Icard; Seth Ivester, O. S. Long, Lawndale.
SOUTH YADKIN (44) — Victor L. Andrews, Mocksville; Zeb D. Baker, Statesville; Mrs.
C. E. Barger, Mooresville; Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Baucom, Jr., Statesville; A. F.
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Blackburn, Troutman; W. B. Carr, Mr. and Mrs. Z. D. Christenbury, Mooresville;
Glenn Craig, Statesville; Mrs. W. H. Dodd, Mocksville; Harry Y. Gamble, States-
ville; Mrs. C. T. Germaine, Mrs. C. I. Gresham; Mrs. J. R. Hendon, Mooresville;
TV M. Hendrix, Mocksville; J. C. R. Herndon, Mooresville; Rev. and Mrs. E. B. Hicks,
Harmony; H. W. Hutchins, Mocksville; Claude Johnson, Conover; Mrs. J. C. Jones,
Mooresville; Mrs. J. W. Jordan, C. E. Kerger, Mrs. W. D. Killian, Rev. and Mrs. R.
Von King, Rev. and Mrs. H. Fletcher Lambert, Ruby Mayberry, Statesville; S. P.
Orders, J. H. Penninger, Mooresville; Mrs. R. L. Poovey, Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Rimmer,
Statesville; G. L. Royster, Cooleemee; Jacob Stewart, Mocksville; Rev. and Mrs. A. T.
Stoudenmire, Cleveland; L. R. Tate, Betty Hunt Thomas, Watha Thomas, Statesville;
E. W. Turner, Mocksville; W. L. Williams, Statesville.
STANLY (32)— Mrs. C. H. Bowers, Norwood; W. J. Bradley, J. H. Burleyson, U. S.
Burleyson, Albemarle; Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Carriker, Stanfield; Mrs. C. B. Casper,
New London; Mrs. J. B. Copple, Albemarle; C. L. Davis, Concord; Rev. and Mrs.
L. W. Fields, Norwood; J. D. Griffin, Locust; Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Hayes, Badin; Rev.
and Mrs. C. R. Hinton, Albemarle; Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Honeycutt, Stanfield; W. A.
Hough, Norwood; O. A. Honeycutt, Norwood; Mrs. B. B. Johnston, Badin; Mrs. E. S.
Levy, J. H. Mauldin, Norwood; W. F. Mauney, Stanfield; E. L. Melton, Concord;
Rev. and Mrs. L. D. Munn, Badin; D. J. Robinson, New London; John H. Simpson,
Concord; Mrs. T. V. Staton, New London; C. L. Taylor, Dwight Wilhelm, Albemarle.
STONE MOUNTAIN CO-
STONY FORK (0)—
SURRY (6)— Willa B. Marks, Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Otey, Rev. and Mrs. R. K. Redwine,
Julia Swann, Mount Airy.
TAR RIVER (13)— Mrs. J. T. Alderman, Henderson; J. Edward Allen, Warrenton; A.
Paul Bagby, Louisburg; Daisie B. Bowers, Mrs. W. Ray Bowers, Littleton; R. E.
Brickhouse, Warrenton; W. P. Childers, R. R. Campbell, Louisburg; E. N. Gardner,
W. H. Kimball, Elizabeth Lassiter, Henderson; Rev. and Mrs. Albert E. Simms,
Littleton.
TENNESSEE RIVER (3)— W. Herbert Brown, O. G. Dellinger, Mrs. A. J. Franklin,
Bryson City.
THREE FORKS (4)— J. C. Canipe, Kathleen Frink,-Grady Hamby, Boone; Mrs. Don C.
Perry, Sherwood.
TRANSYLVANIA (6)— J. A. Anderson, Pisgah Forest; S. B. McCall, S.« F. McAuley,
Rev. and Mrs. B. W. Thomason, Brevard; L. B. Vaughn, Slater, S. C.
TUCKASEIGEE (9)— F. P. Blankenship, Dillsboro; B. S. Hensley, Sylva; Dr. and Mrs.
H. T. Hunter, A. C. McCall, Cullowhee; Hugh Monteith, Sylva; H. P. Smith, Cullo-
whee; C. M. Warren, Sylva; C. C. Welch, Glenville.
UNION (36) — Jack T. Akin, Monroe; Mrs. Carlton Bivens; John A. Bivens, Wingate;
Mrs. J. V. Brooks, Monroe; Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Burris, Carolyn Caldwell, Mrs. Joe
Chaney, Wingate; I. A. Connell, Mrs. H. E. Copple, Monroe; Mrs. J. M. Edwards,
Marshville; Mrs. J. Grady Faulk, Monroe; Henry Gamble, Waxhaw ; J. T. Garland,
Mrs. J. Hurley Griffin, Marshville; Mr. and Mrs. Joel W. Griffin, Monroe; Joe Lee
Helms, M. C. Helms, Indian Trail; A. F. Hendricks, Mrs. H. M. Lilly, W. C. Link,
Jr., Wingate; Mrs. Eula Marsh, Marshville; Mrs. W. M. Perry, Rommie Pierce, Mrs.
R. F. Price, Wingate; Mrs. C. L. Rollins, Marshville; M. L. Ross, Concord; W. C.
Sanders, Monroe; Fred Sandusky, Mrs. Baron D. Smith, Wingate; Loyd W. Teague,
Camp Sutton; Mrs. G. O. Tucker, Rev. and Mrs. J. N. Watson, Marshville; Mr. and
Mrs. J. Howard Williams, Munroe.
WEST CHOWAN (IS)— Mrs. Hallie O. D. Baker, Ahoskie; Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Coun-
cilman, Windsor; Rev. and Mrs. Oscar Creech, Ahoskie; Joseph B. Folds, Aulander;
Rev. and Mrs. Fletcher Ford, Severn; J. L. Jones, Murfreesboro; Rev. and Mrs. John
E. Lanier, Winton; Mrs. C. G. Maddrey, Ahoskie; Lonnie Sasser, Murfreesboro; E. R.
Stewart, Windsor; Paul T. Worrell, Colerain.
WEST- LIBERTY (0)—
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA (2)— R. Lane Akins, Hayesville; L. P. Smith, Andrews.
WILMINGTON (19)— C. E. Baker, Sankey L. Blanton, Earle L. Bradley, Wilmington;
H. F. Brinson, Currie; J. Bryan Dosher, Kelly; Mrs. L. J. Jordan, Carolina Beach;
T. H. King, Rev. and Mrs. G. Carl Lewis, Wilmington; Lewis E. Ludlum, Carolina
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Beach; William A. Poole, Burgaw; Rev. and Mrs. Woodrow W. Robbins, Leland; Rev.
and Mrs. David K. Shelton, Jacksonville; Rev. and Mrs. H. S. Strickland; J. O. Wal-
ton, Wilmington; Thomas K. Woody, Jr., Atkinson.
YADKIN (7)— W. T. Adams, J. G. Allgood, Mr. and Mrs. Paul P. Davis, Yadkinville;
Mrs. J. W. Garner, Brooks X Roads; J. C. Ray, Boonville; George D. Renegar,
Harmony.
YANCEY (3) — E. G. Adkins, Ramsaytown; Laura Mae Hilliard, A. Z. Jamerson,
Burnsville.
Total Messengers: 1,585.
VISITORS (242) — Mrs. R. E. Agnew, Charlotte; Mrs. Jack T. Akin, Monroe; Martha
Ann Allen, Wake Forest; Mrs. J. G. Allgood, Yadkinville; Mrs. Wallace Aman,
Carolina Beach; Mrs. Hugh G. Ashcraft, Mrs. H. S. Atwell, Mrs. Geo. S. Averett,
James E. Baker, Lumberton; Barrie B. Barefoot, Angier; E. S. Barnes, Charlotte;
Mrs. R. F. Beasley, Monroe; R. R. Beck, Salisbury; R. T. Boatwright, Conover;
Mrs. David E. Bobbitt, Charlotte; Mrs. H. L. Bost, Hickory; Attie T. Bostick, Shelby;
Mrs. R. H. Bowles, Hickory; Mrs. Basil Boyd, Charlotte; Paul T. Brock, Marion;
Mrs. B. W. Broome, Wingate; Ray E. Brown, Winston-Salem; Mrs. R. B. Buie,
Bladenboro; Mrs. A. S. Bumgardner, Charlotte; Mrs. Roscoe Bunn, Snow Hill; Mrs.
Danford Burroughs, Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Byers, Troutman; Mrs. C. R.
Caldwell, Charlotte; Harry Cardwell, Reidsville; Mrs. B. C. Carlton, Hickory; Mrs.
W. O. Carr, Shelby; Hardy A. Corroll, Guilford College; P. H. Carter, Winston-Salem;
Mrs. A. D. Caudle, Albemarle; Marjorie Chapman, Charlotte; Adelaide Charles, Ral-
eigh; Mrs. Ed Christenbury, Mooresville; Mrs. R. I. Corbett, Marion; Mrs. Glenn
Craig, Statesville; Mrs. Paul Crandall, Winston-Salem; Anne Crapps, Mrs. M. S. Crapps,
Hickory; Mrs. F. E. Dabney, Henrietta; R. T. Daniel, Fort Worth, Tex.; G. W.
Davis, Biscoe; Mrs. H. T. Davis, Salisbury; J. Neal Davis, Winston-Salem; Shirley
Davis, Kernersville; Jerry Deese, Mrs. J. M. Deese, Kannapolis; Mrs. W. D. Digh,
Holly; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey T. Gibson, Raleigh; Dr. Edith M. Gosnell, Fairmont;
Spencer; W. H. Dodd, Mocksville; Lucy Echerd, Taylorsville; Hattie Edwards, Thom-
asville; Mrs. E. M. Eggers, Winston-Salem; R. P. Ellington, Graham; Mrs. John
Erwin, Salisbury; Rev. and Mrs. J. N. Evans, Jr., Wallace; W. J. Farthing, Valle
Crucis; Mrs. Ralph Featherstone, Belmont; G. H. Ferguson, Raleigh; Mrs. T. W.
Fogleman, Grover; Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Foster, Statesville; Mrs. J. H. Fowler, Kan-
napolis; Rev. and Mrs. H. S. Fox, Charlotte; Mrs. J. H. Fulghum, Mocksville; Mrs.
Cora Funderburk, Charlotte; James Gibbs, Stedman; Mrs. H. D. Gibson, Mount
Mae Grimmer, Raleigh; Geo. W. Griffin, Washington, D. C. ; Mrs. Joel W. Griffin,
Monroe; Mrs. R. H. Graham, Charlotte; Mrs. Mack Guthrie, Wilmington; L. L.
Hackney, Charlotte; Rev. and Mrs. P. W. Hamlett, Morganton; Chesley Hammond,
Fairmont; Mrs. C. L. Hamrick, Davidson; M. W. Hamrick, Asheville; Minnie May
Hammond, Charlotte; Mrs. J. E. Hancock, Winston-Salem; Mrs. E. J. Harrell, New-
ton; Mrs. J. W. Hartsfield, Charlotte; J. B. Hatcher, Gaffney, S. C. ; Mrs. A. B.
Hayes, Charlotte; Mrs. L. L. Haynes, Kannapolis; H. A. Helms, Raleigh; Mrs. O. W.
Herr, Charlotte; Mrs. Ralph Herring, Winston-Salem; Mrs. C. J. Hicks, Forest City;
Mrs. J. H. Hicks, Greensboro; W. S. Hicks, Mrs. W. S. Hicks, Mooresboro; C. High-
smith, Gastonia; Albert Hill, Edneyville; Mrs. R. W. Hill, Salisbury; Mrs. C. Y.
Holden, Sr., Wake Forest; Thomas C. Holland, Mooresboro; Mrs. Robert D. Holleman,
Durham; Mrs. Ella T. Holtzclaw, Danville, Ky. ; Mrs. Wilbur Honeycutt, Carolina
Beach; Paul J. Hopkins, Mount Gilead; Mrs. M. S. Howard, Thomasville; Rev. and
Mrs. R. T. Howerton, Jr., Raleigh; Mrs. G. D. Hoyle, Charlotte; Mrs. M. A. Hug-
gins, Raleigh; Wilbur A. Huneycutt, Boca Raton, Fla. ; Mrs. R. W. Hutchins, Salis-
bury; Mrs. J. C. Hutto, Lumberton; Mrs. Dwight H. Ives, Concord; W. F. Jackson,
Pineville; Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Jackson, Raleigh; Gretchen Johnson, Sylva; Mrs. J. G.
Johnson, Charlotte; J. B. Jones, Morganton; Ruth Keller, Raleigh; T. L. Kimbrough,
Princeton, Ind. ; Mrs. A. W. Kincaid, Bessemer City; Mrs. Fred Koerber, Greensboro;
W. L. Lanier, Belmont; Mrs. G. G. Lanter, Winston-Salem; Geo. W. Leeper, Parkton;
Grady Lewis, Lincolnton; Mrs. J. E. Lewis, Charlotte; Mary Liles, Wadesboro; Mrs.
R. H. Lineberger, Stanley; Mrs. T. V. Lineberger, Lincolnton; Mrs. W. C. Link, Jr.,
Wingate; Mrs. L. A. Loftin, Mount Holly; Mrs. Bettie I. Long, Lilesville; Mrs. R. E.
Long, Stanley; W. A. McCall, Seattle, Wash.; I. Stuart McElroy, Richmond, Va.;
H. M. McGinnis, Hamlet; Mrs. C. P. McMahan, Forest City; Mrs. J. B. Mackie,
Granite Falls; Henri E. Marian, Wilmington; Mrs. Hugh R. Martin, Charlotte; Zeno
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Martin, Raleigh; Mrs. W. A. Matthew's, Charlotte; Mrs. N. A. Melton, Columbus;
Mrs. R. C. Menzies, Hickory; Mrs. C. A. Millsaps, Statesville; Mrs. Ira Montgomery,
Kannapolis; Mrs. Raymond E. Moore, Rural Hall; R. P. Murray, Kannapolis; Mrs. S. I.
Myers, Lenoir; Jack Newgent, Winston-Salem; Kathryn Oren, Monroe; J. M. Page,
Raleigh; Mrs. J. F. Parker, Wake Forest; Mrs. Lee A. Phillips, Plymouth; Mr. and
Mrs. H. W. Pickett, Durham; Maude Pope, Catawba; Mrs. C. W. Poplin, Kannapolis;
Mrs. Anderson Price, Taylorsville; Mrs. Chas. R. Price, Charlotte; Floyd W. Propst,
Concord; Mrs. J. L. Putnam, Sr., Lincolnton; Mr. and Mrs. Grady Queen, Spencer;
Joyce Reep, Belmont; Ronald E. Rice, Burlington; Mrs. H. A. Ridenhour, Monroe;
Mrs. R. D. Riggins, Rockingham; W. M. Rivenbark, Jr., Wallace; Joe F. Roach,
Lewiston; Mrs. Robt. L. Robinson, Charlotte; W. D. Robinson, Gastonia; Mrs. M. B.
Roebuck, Badin; Mrs. F. H. Sadler, Mount Holly; Mrs. E. V. Sapp, Charlotte; Mrs.
F. G. Satterfield, Durham; Mrs. D. C. Scruggs, Charlotte; F. J. Seago, Lilesville;
Mrs. G. R. Seaberry, Jr., Concord; Carl Sharpe, Newton; Mrs. J. F. Shuford, Salis-
bury; Mrs. A. B. Simmons, Mrs. G. F. Sinclair, Mrs. W. D. Sloan, Charlotte; Mrs.
A. G. Smith, Spencer; Edgar W. Smith, Charlotte; Harvey Smith, Kannapolis; Mrs.
J. E. Smith, Salisbury; Mrs. L. A. Smith, Belmont; Sylvia Smith, Lexington; Mrs. S. I.
Smith, Charlotte; Mrs. Lawson Snipes, Carolina Beach; Milton Snyder, Hickory; Mrs.
Sam Southard, Lincolnton; Mrs. R. B. Staton, Monroe; Mrs. J. A. Steelman, Hickory;
Carroll Stegall, Jonesboro; Mrs. G. D. Stegall, Wingate; Joel Stegall, Jonesboro; Mrs.
H. M. Stroup, Denton; Mrs. C. W. Teague, Granite Falls; Mrs. J. M. Teague, Char-
lotte; Elmer Thomas, Dyersburg, Tenn. ; W. M. Thomas, Broadway; E. J. Trueblood,
Gaffney, S. C. ; Mrs. Laura Turnley, Washington, D. C. ; Mrs. E. W. Turner, Mocks-
ville; Mrs. Ira B. Turner, Charlotte; Percy B. Upchurch, Raleigh; Mrs. C. R. Upton,
Charlotte; Dorothy Vann, Raleigh; P. W. Walker, Kannapolis; Mrs. Woodrow Wall,
Charlotte; Mrs. Zeno Wall, Shelby; Mrs. E. W. Walton, Hickory; Mrs. C. C. Warren,
Mrs. Emma Warren, Charlotte; Rev. and Mrs. C. S. Waters, Manchester; Mrs. R. B.
Watkins, Mount Holly; Mrs. Jim Watts, Taylorsville; Ruth Anne Weathers, Stanley;
Mrs. Mertie E. Webb, Charlotte; Mrs. C. C. Welch, Glenville; Mrs. David Wesson,
Valdese; Mrs. Linwood Westbrook, Salemburg; Mrs. James White, Winston-Salem;
Mrs. I. W. Williams, Mrs. T. P. Williamson, Charlotte; J. E. Womble, Lillington;
Nell Wright, Charlotte; H. A. Yarbrough, Charlotte; Sarah Yates, Charlotte; Mrs. W.
D. Yelton, Hickory; Roy J. Young, Rural Hall.
Total Messengers and Visitors: 1,827.
REPORT OF
THE GENERAL BOARD
85.
REPORT OF THE GENERAL BOARD
In presenting this report to the one hundred and fourteenth session of the
Baptist State Convention, the General Board expresses its gratitude once again
to God and our thanks to the Baptist people of the State.
On the whole the Board believes it to be an excellent report, and it be-
lieves that when the reports from the associations are tabulated a substantial
increase in the number of baptisms will be apparent. With respect to income
it is sufficient to say that it will be far greater than in any year we have had.
Multiplied thousands of our church members are wearing the uniform of their
country, and are in many lands beyond the seas. Others have been uprooted
from their homes, and have moved into war areas. Mounting casualty lists
have brought sadness to many homes and many churches. It has, therefore,
been a year of lights and shadows, but with the lights dominating.
Before listing those matters which have claimed the particular attention of
the Board during the year we present a brief report of the meetings of the
General Board which have occurred during the year, except of course those
matters considered by the Board at its pre-convention meeting.
86.
I. REPORT OF GENERAL BOARD MEETINGS
Actions of the General Board in its meeting January 17 and 18 follow:
1. The Board was organized with the election of E. N. Gardner as Presi-
dent, Clyde E. Baucom, Vice-President and C. B. Deane as Recording Secre-
tary. Chairmen of the various committees were elected as follows : Clyde E.
Baucom, Committee on Missions, Louis S. Gaines, Committee on Training
Activities, Claude F. Gaddy, Committee on Education, and W. A. Ayers, Com-
mittee on Benevolence. Louis S. Gaines and W. E. Stanley were named mem-
bers of the Executive Committee to take the place of those whose terms had
expired.
2. The Convention, in its 1943 session, appointed a committee of which
W. H. Weatherspoon was named chairman, to investigate the needs for and
advisability of procuring a home for the General Secretary of the Convention.
Following a discussion of the matter is was agreed that this committee should,
upon the consent and recommendation of the Executive Committee, be clothed
with sufficient power to make final disposition of the matter.
3. The Board heard the report of the committee appointed to make a study
of the rural churches. This committee, composed of Garland A. Hendricks,
Fon H. Scofield and R. T. Stancil, made a report and presented four recom-
mendations, which recommendations were adopted by the Board. They follow :
1. That the General Board endorse and support the movement
to establish associational libraries for ministers.
2. That the General Board experiment this year in such asso-
ciational projects as that being undertaken in the Pilot Mountain
Association March 18-25, 1944.
3. That the General Board name a standing Committee for the
study of the rural churches, to be made up of five men ; that
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necessary funds be appropriated for materials, books, travel, etc.,
said sum not to exceed $1,000.
4. That the General Secretary be instructed to inform the Ex-
ecutive Secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention of plans for working with the rural churches,
and that he invite the Home Mission Board to share in planning
and financing the work.
The committee was increased by the election of two other members, Olin
T. Binkley and Tom M. Freeman.
4. Appropriations for current support for the first six months of the year
made to the colleges, upon the recommendation of the Committee on Educa-
tion, as follows :
Wake Forest $10,000
Meredith 10,000
Mars Hill 7,500
Campbell 6,250
Wingate 1,750
The Committee on Education was empowered to set the appropriations for
the last six months of the calendar year 1944.
An appropriation in the amount of $600 was made to take care of the ex-
penses, travel, et cetera, in connection with meetings of the Education Council.
5. Authority was granted the Executive Committee to borrow an amount
not to exceed $75,000 during the calendar year for the purpose of completing
the housing-in of the Wake Forest chapel building and for State Mission
Work.
6. The Board agreed to cooperate with the Home Mission Board in the
promotion of a program of City Missions, such cooperation to include the
payment of not more than one-third of the salaries of the city missionaries
employed in Durham and Greensboro, with the understanding that the same
agreement would apply with reference to any future missionaries employed in
other cities. (Later in the year, after a conference with representatives of
the Home Board, it was found impracticable to work out the program with
the Home Board except on a fifty-fifty basis. Later in the report a fuller
statement of the working agreements with the Home Board will be given.;
7. The Executive Committee was authorized to advise with the General
Secretary to the end that proper notice be served upon the Baptist churches
cooperating with the Convention that the General Board in the future will
not look with favor upon making appropriations to help in rebuilding a church
destroyed by fire if such church had negligently failed to provide fire insurance
on the building so destroyed.
8. The Executive Committee was empowered to advise and direct the
Trustees of the Baptist State Convention, a corporation, to take, hold, acquire,
and make conveyance of real estate owned by, or which may be acquired by
said trustees. (This action was necessary in order that certain lots owned by
the Convention in the Sunset Park area of Wilmington might be transferred
and title taken to other lots in lieu thereof.)
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9. Authority was given the Executive Committee to arrange for continu-
ance of the North Carolina Baptist Radio Hour for the last three quarters of
the year, or some part of that time, and that necessary funds be made available.
Since the Convention in Winston- Salem failed to name a Radio Committee,
the following committee was named by the Board : Carl M. Townsend, W.
Wilbur Hutchins, Mrs. Glenn Lassiter, L. L. Carpenter all of Raleigh, W.
Perry Crouch, Asheville, George D. Heaton, Charlotte and C. E. Parker,
Winston-Salem.
10. Upon the recommendation of the Committee on Benevolence it was
voted that the Relief and Annuity Board be advised that funds held by the
State Convention for relief would be paid to beneficiaries through the Relief
and Annuity Board, and not directly by the State Convention. (This action
was necessary in lieu of an action taken by the Convention, or Board, at some
previous time, but which had been overlooked in distributing some funds to
aged ministers, or widows, just before last Christmas time.)
11. Concerning a reserve fund for State Missions, the following resolution
was adopted:
"Be It Resolved by the General Board of the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina that out of the surplus existing in
the State Mission fund as of December 31, 1943 there be deposited
with the North Carolina Baptist Foundation the sum of Fifteen
Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars, same to be held in reserve until
such time as it may be needed for the purposes of State Mission
Work ;
That the North Carolina Baptist Foundation be requested to
invest this amount to the best advantage possible, paying to the
treasurer of the Convention from time to time any and all in-
terest earned ;
That it be understood that the North Carolina Baptist Founda-
tion shall refund to the General Board the total amount, or any
part, or parts, of the total amount when and as the General Board
may request after reasonable, notice shall have been given to the
North Carolina Baptist Foundation."
12. The resignation of M. O. Alexander as General Missionary of the
Board was accepted and recorded in the minutes. A committee was appointed
to prepare proper resolutions of appreciation, same to be recorded in the
minutes of the Executive Committee.
13. A special committee, appointed to study the salary schedule of employees
and make recommendations, made the following report which was adopted by
the Board :
"That the remuneration for employees of the Convention who
are married be considered in two divisions (1) base salary and
(2) allowance for habitation.
That the increase in salaries in all instances be held to within
five to ten per cent increase — that is not to exceed ten per cent.
That the working out of this arrangement be left with the
Executive Committee."
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(At a subsequent meeting of the Executive Committee an allowance for a
home for the full-time employees of the Board who are married was fixed at
$600 a year. The salary schedule for all employees of the Board will appear
in the auditor's statement in the minutes of the Convention.)
14. The Board approved the division of the 60% of the Undesignated Co-
operative Program for State causes as follows :
State Missions 15%
Hospital 5%
Ministerial Education 1%
Ministers' Retirement Fund 1%
Education-Debt Service 24%
Education-Current Support 14%
Total 60%
15. Important actions of the Executive Committee in the interim between
meetings of the General Board in January and June are recorded as follows :
(a) An appropriation of $1,000 was made to the Chapel Hill Church in
order that the church building might be put in first-rate condition before the
dedication of the building in the summer or fall.
(b) Appropriations were made for purchase of lots for churches to be
established in West Thomasville and McLeansville.
(c) It was voted that the Pastors' Schools in 1944 be held at Mars Hill
and at Gardner-Webb as in the previous year, but that the school usually held
at Meredith be transferred to Wake Forest.
(d) The resignation of W. Wilbur Hutchins as Secretary of the Training
Union Division was accepted in order that he might accept the call to the
pastorate of the First Church of High Point. The General Secretary was
authorized to draw up suitable resolutions of appreciation of his services to
the Convention, same to be recorded in the minutes of the Board. At the
same meeting Harvey T. Gibson, at that time assistant professor of English
at N. C. State College, was employed to succeed Mr. Hutchins at a salary of
$2700 plus $600 allowance for rent, his services to begin on April 1. Also at
that meeting Law Mobley, then a senior student at the Southern Baptist The-
ological Seminary, was employed as Young People's Leader in the Training
Union Division at a salary of $2400 and Miss Louise Paschal was elected
Junior Leader at a salary of $1620.
(e) The resignation of W. H. Moore was accepted in order that he might
accept the pastorate of Beck's Church in the Pilot Mountain Association.
(f) The following agreement concerning the City Missions program to be
carried on jointly by the Home Mission Board and the General Board was
approved :
"On March 3, 1944 the following named brethren met in con-
ference in the office of General Secretary M. A. Huggins, Raleigh,
North Carolina : M. A. Huggins, S. F. Dowis, and Courts Red-
ford of the Home Mission Board, T. L. Sasser, Superintendent
of City Missions in the Piedmont Association, J. Clyde Turner,
Chairman of the City Missions Committee in the Piedmont Asso-
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ciation, B. E. Morris, Chairman of the City Missions Committee
of Durham, North Carolina, and F. D. Hemphill, Superintendent
of City Missions of Durham, N. C.
"After a general conference and discussion the following terms
of agreement were reached as a basis for cooperation between the
Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and the
General Board of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
in the City Missions Program in North Carolina.
"1. That the City Missions Program shall be directed by a
local City Missions Committee appointed by 'the district associa-
tion or the Baptist Council, and that this committee shall make
reports to the district association or council.
"2. That the Superintendent of City Missions shall be under
the direction of the local City Missions Committee ; shall be em-
ployed by the General Board of the Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina and approved by the Home Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention, and that he shall make reports to
both these bodies each month as well as to his City Missions
Committee ; that the salary and the local expense account of the
Superintendent shall be shared on a fifty-fifty basis between the
General Board of North Carolina and the Home Mission Board.
"3. That the City Missions Program shall remain a church-
centered program, and this will necessitate the appointment of a
Missions Committee in each local church ; and that the work of
missions in the city shall be the work of the local church. There-
fore, it will be the obligation of the City Missions Committee,
and the superintendent, to enlist the churches in doing the local
mission work.
"4. It is to be kept in mind that this program shall be pri-
marily one which is dependent upon voluntary workers from the
local churches.
"5. That the City Missions Program shall remain primarily a
missionary program, and not become an educational or promotional
work of the already established churches, but shall be for the
extension of Kingdom work beyond the local church.
"6. That each City Missions Program shall call upon the
churches of its area to provide the necessary local operating
budget."
(g) Mrs. Gerald Motley, then a student at the W. M. U. Training School,
was elected as assistant to Mr. Morgan in the Sunday School Division at a
salary of $1620.
(h) Secretary Huggins reported that the matter of the B. F. Huntley will,
which had been passed on to the Executive Committee with power to act, was
settled and that $10,105.54 had been received. It was voted that this amount
be placed with the Baptist Foundation, the income to be used by the General
Board in accordance with the terms of the will.
The following actions were taken by the General Board, meeting in Wake
Forest, on June 6 :
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1. Claude F. Gaddy, Chairman of the Committee on Education,
brought a report, which included the recommendation of the Edu-
cation Council, suggesting that appropriations for current support
for the schools for the last six months of the year 1944 be the
same as for the first six months.
2. Louis S. Gaines made a report for the Committee to Pur-
chase a Home for the General Secretary, which report follows :
(This committee was composed of W. H. Weatherspoon, J. M.
Broughton, Mrs. B. A. Hocutt, J. Winston Pearce, Louis S.
Gaines, Mrs. J. Wilbur Bunn, A. D. Kinnett.)
"The General Board in its meeting on January 17, 1944 took the following
action.
'The Convention, in its 1943 session, appointed a committee of
which W. H. Weatherspoon was named chairman, to investigate
the needs for and advisability of procuring a home for the General
Secretary of the Convention. Following a discussion of the mat-
ter it was agreed that this committee should, upon the consent
and recommendation of the Executive Committee, be clothed with
sufficient power to make final disposition of the matter.'
"Following that action the special committee, working in close cooperation
with the Executive Committee of the General' Board, made extensive inquiry
all over the city of Raleigh for a suitable place, and the Executive Committee
has considered ways and means of financing such a purchase should a place be
secured.
"Your special committee at its first meeting decided that it was wise to
secure a place the cost of which would not be in excess of $20,000. After a
thorough canvass of the situation, however, no suitable place could be found
at that figure. A place was found, however, at 1509 Hillsboro Street, at a
purchase price of $22,500. However, there is a large garage apartment that
has been renting for several years at around $50 a month, thus bringing in
about $600 a year. The committee, therefore, figures that the house itself
would have a value of about $19,000 and, on the basis of present income, the
garage apartment a value of $3,500 to $4,000, which will over a period of a
few years cause the property to cost much less than $20,000.
"The property is well located, making it easily accessible to people from
out of town who wish to see the secretary. It is also in walking distance of
both a grade and high school.
"Your special committee has learned from the Executive Committee that
the money for the purchase of the property can be secured and the property
paid for in the course of a few years without the use of any mission money
given by the churches, either designated or undesignated.
"Your special committee, therefore, unanimously recommends that the prop-
erty be purchased, and that the General Board authorize the Executive Com-
mittee to secure the necessary funds for said purchase."
(Pursuant to this action the property was purchased. The income from
the apartment, now amounting to $64 a month, plus the $600 allowance for a
home for the General Secretary, will go into a fund to retire the indebted-
ness.)
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87.
II. MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL ON CHRISTIAN
EDUCATION
We bring herewith a summary of the work of the Education Council ap-
pointed by the last Convention :
The Council on Christian Education was organized by the Baptist State
Convention in its meeting in Winston-Salem in 1943. In addition to four
representatives from each of the five colleges receiving operating funds from
the Convention, there are five members as follows : President of the Conven-
tion ; President of the Woman's Missionary Union ; President of the General
Board; Chairman of the Education Committee of the General Board; and the
General Secretary of the Convention — thereby making a total membership of
twenty-five members on the present council. The five colleges are Wake
Forest, Meredith, Mars Hill, Campbell and Wingate.
The Council was directed to meet quarterly, at the call of the General Sec-
retary, and make a report of its work to the Convention in annual meeting.
A meeting has been held each quarter with nineteen members present for
two meetings and twenty for the last meeting, which was held in Raleigh on
October 9. All colleges have been represented in each meeting.
The permanent organization provides that the Chairman of the Education
Committee of the General Board and the President of the State W. M. U.
shall be Chairman and Recording Secretary of the Council.
The work of the Council has been devoted largely to a study of the prob-
lems in the operation of the five Baptist colleges and a consideration of the
equitable distribution of the funds available for operating purposes. With
the exception of Meredith College there has been a marked decrease in en-
rollment because of the war. At the present there are approximately 2,300
young men and young women enrolled in our five Baptist colleges. For the
education of these young people the Baptists of North Carolina are con-
tributing $71,000 through the Cooperative Program funds in 1944, or a little
more than $30.00 per student. The present plans for 1945 should increase this
from $30.00 per student to more than $56.00, or about double the present
amount.
A committee of the Council representing each of the colleges is now pre-
paring a folder of information on the various colleges to be distributed through-
out the State, especially to the students in the public high schools.
In the second quarterly meeting, April 28, 1944, a sub-committee was ap-
pointed from each college to study and make recommendations regarding the
allocation of operating funds for 1945. In meeting on October 9, 1944, this
committee made a report of its findings as follows :
1. The enrollment in Wake Forest and Meredith colleges for
1944 are practically the same, and the schedule of charges to stu-
dents are the same. In the junior colleges with different enroll-
ments the charges to students are approximately the same.
2. The endowment funds range from practically nothing in
Wingate College to more than three million dollars in Wake
Forest College, thereby making operating income among the col-
leges a wide variable.
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3. The policy with respect to dormitory and dining hall prac-
tices among the schools varies too widely for the income to be
considered in the allocation of funds at the present.
4. That the need for definite information on the amounts to
be provided for 1945 makes it necessary to have some action based
on the best information available, with further study to be given
the problems involved.
After giving much time in hearing and discussing the various items of the
report of the committee the Council made the following recommendations to
the General Board and to the Convention :
1. That under present abnormal conditions it be the policy of
the Convention to allocate for operating costs only 50% of the
Cooperative Program funds for Christian Education, with the
provision that for 1945 a total of $130,000 be divided among the
colleges for operating costs as follows :
Wake Forest College $36,000
Meredith College 36,000
Mars Hill 30,000
Campbell 23,000
Wingate 5,000
The matter of allocating the remaining funds is to be given
further study for future recommendations.
2. That the General Board be urged, in making the allocation
of Cooperative Program funds for 1945, insofar as possible to
maintain the same proportion for Christian Education as is now
provided.
In concluding this brief summary of the work done by the Council on
Christian Education in its first year of existence, the Chairman would like to
observe that the undertaking seems to have justified the hope of those who
favored its inauguration in that it has brought together those who are re-
sponsible for the operation of our Baptist colleges, and in so doing has enabled
us to see our problems both individually and collectively. Baptists in North
Carolina are in the midst of great opportunities in Christian education, and this
Council should be, and can be, their best guide.
III. THE YEAR 1944— ITEMS OF INTEREST
1. Changes in Personnel: In the report of meetings of the General Board
mention has been made of several changes in personnel. We wish to make
here some further reference.
During the year General Missionary M. O. Alexander resigned his position
with the General Board to enter the pastorate, having accepted a call to the
Beaufort Church. For about nine years Mr. Alexander did a most con-
structive work in the churches and in the general meetings. The records will
prove, we think, that scores of churches touched by Mr. Alexander have not
been the same sort of churches since his visits. Blessed with excellent health
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he was able to go here and there any time and all the time. We are glad to
record here sincere appreciation for his effective services.
W. H. Moore came with the Board to assist the General Secretary in
spreading the appeal for funds for the Wake Forest chapel and in visiting
pastors in an effort to enlist them in the Ministers' Retirement Plan. Soon
after he came, due to the war effort, it was difficult for him to get enough
gas to do the work assigned to him. He was, therefore, compelled to travel
by bus much of the time. This placed a heavy strain on him physically. Even
so he served the Board with great loyalty and devotion. In August of this
year he reentered the pastorate, having accepted a call to Becks Church in the
Pilot Mountain Association.
After nine years of service with our Board Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lane
resigned as associates in the Sunday School Division. Mr. Lane was called
to South Carloina as State Training Union Secretary. We express our thanks
to Mr. and Mrs. Lane, and to Mr. Lane our congratulations upon the call
that has come to a larger field of service, in which his responsibilities and
opportunities will be greater.
During the year the First Church of High Point extended a call to W.
Wilbur Hutchins, our State Training Union Secretary, and he felt led to
accept the call. To the work of the Training Union in the State he brought
marked ability and devotion. It was in his mind and heart to enlarge the
work of the Training Union and to enlist the multiplied thousands of our
young people now unenlisted. To succeed him the Board considers itself most
fortunate in the selection of Air. Harvey T. Gibson as State Training Union
Secretary. Mr. Gibson was at the time of his election assistant professor of
English at State College. Prior to that time he had taught for some years in
the Durham High School. During these, years, however, he has been most
active in Sunday School and Training Union work. To this work he brings
a strong body, a well-furnished mind and deep devotion.
As Mr. Gibson's associate, working in the main with the young people,
Law M. Mobley, a native of South Carolina and a graduate of our Southern
Seminary at Louisville in 1944, was elected.
For some time we have been looking around for someone to become an
associate in the Training Union Division to give attention principally to juniors.
To this position Miss Louise Paschal, a 1944 graduate of the W. M. U.
Training School, was elected. She brings to the task excellent training. She
has had much experience in association-wide and state-wide training schools.
Thus for the first time in a long time we have a full complement of workers
in the Training Union Division, although Miss Margaret Sparks has been
granted a leave of absence for a year's study at the W. M. U. Training School.
In the matter of personnel attention is called to the fact that just now there
is great need for an additional General Missionary, or someone who will give
his time almost completely to the development of the rural churches. There
is also needed for a period of one to five years a man whose task it will be
to assist the General Secretary in enlisting the pastors who are not now mem-
bers of the Ministers' Retirement Plan. Also there is urgent need for a full-
time man whose work will be the enlisting of the one hundred thousand Bap-
tist men in our churches. Soon, we trust, multiplied thousands of our young
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men will be returning to their churches. It remains to be seen whether they
will return to active or inactive service in the churches. A leader is greatly
needed.
2. Increase in Incomes: The report of the auditor will show that during
the year, closing with September 30, the income of the Convention has in-
creased more than 20%. In 1943 the total income for all objects of the
Convention, designated and undesignated, was $1,403,476.89. During the present
calendar year we are maintaining an increase of more than 20%, and it appears
that the total, income for 1944 will be around $1,600,000.
3. Convention Debts : It appears at the writing of this report that the
Convention should be out of debt, or well nigh out, on December 31 of this
year. This has been made possible because of the substantial increase in the
Undesignated Cooperative Program and gifts through the Hundred Thousand
Club. Let us recall that at the beginning of 1937 the Convention owed $800,000
on the old educational debt, and since that time the Convention has undertaken
to build the chapel at Wake Forest and has also underwritten an indebtedness
of $95,000 for the Hospital. Recently the final payment of $22,000 was made
on the original loan, made in 1923, for the first unit of the Hospital. This
payment and the continued reduction in the loan of $95,000 were made pos-
sible because of the increase in the Undesignated Cooperative Program and
the enlarged offering on Mother's Day. The Convention last year ordered
that all money received in the Mother's Day offering above $75,000 should
go to the retirement of the debt on the Hospital, which had been assumed by
the Convention. Since the Mother's Day offering amounted to about $95,000
there has been about $20,000 available to use for payment on the debt apart
from the receipts from the Cooperative Program.
Beginning with the new year the Hundred Thousand Club will not be
needed. It has fulfilled in large measure the purpose for which it was begun.
It is very necessary, however, that the churches continue it for the remainder
of 1944. Whether we get out of debt this year will depend to a large extent
upon the gifts to the Hundred Thousand Club for the remainder of the year.
In the sessions of the Convention for the past twenty years much attention
has been given to the matter of debts. When the Convention meets one year
hence, the Lord willing, it is hoped that no mention whatever need be made
of debts, that is so far as debts to creditors are concerned.
4. Wake Forest Chapel : Thus far we have received about $30,000 from
individuals and churches, who placed the item in their budgets, for the chapel.
It will be remembered that the Music and Religion Building was completed
two years ago. Months ago the main chapel building was housed in and the
outside virtually completed. The inside remains unfinished. If the recom-
mendation which the Board is making to this Convention with reference to the
chapel is followed it is hoped that all the money borrowed to house in the
chapel can be paid by the end of the year. In that event only an amount of
money sufficient to complete the inside of the chapel will be needed in 1945.
5. Ministers' Retirement Plan : Up to this date 588 certificates have
been issued. To be sure some of these have been cancelled for one reason or
another. A few of the men who are considered members, together with their
churches, are in arrears. Since there are more than 1200 active pastors in the
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State there ought to be that many in the Plan. Recent reports from the Relief
and Annuity Board, which administers the Plan, reveal the fact that the fund
is in excellent financial condition. Some pastors who had retired and who
were receiving an annuity have been called back into active service, while
others who have reached the age of retirement, sixty-five, and are entitled to
retire, have not done so because they are needed. These two factors are
adding strength to the Plan in that they are helping to build up a great reserve
for the years ahead.
We call attention once more to this fact. Many pastors have hesitated to
enter the Plan because of a heavy program of insurance which they are carry-
ing, some of it endowment insurance. We have urged them to take advantage
of the fact that they can enter the Ministers' Retirement Plan on a two, three
or four per cent basis and build up an annuity in proportion to their payments.
We call attention again to this feature of the North Carolina Plan, a feature
which the plans of other states do not have. Wise pastors, we believe, will so
adjust their insurance budget that they may enter the Ministers' Retirement
Plan on at least a 2 per cent basis. They can switch from the two per cent to
three or four per cent at any time, even within any given year.
Along with the auditor's report for the fiscal year, ending December 31,
1944, we hope to include a statement of the financial condition of the Ministers'
Retirement Plan.
In this connection also we call attention to an action taken by the Executive
Committee, and reported herein in the report of the meetings of the General
Board, which makes it possible for a pastor who is a member of the Minis-
ters' Retirement Plan to continue in that plan in the event he should become
an associational missionary or an employee of the General Board in any way,
or may join the Plan, as a pastor at large. Such person is also eligible to
become a member of the Boards Employees Retirement Plan. Following the
action of the Executive Committee satisfactory arrangements on this basis
were worked out with the Relief and Annuity Board.
6. Work in the Camp Areas: Thus far some $60,000 have been expended
to provide workers and buildings in the war areas. All the opportunities pre-
sented to us have not been met, but we do record with gratitude that some
have been met. In the Sunset Park area of Wilmington there stands the
Sunset Park Church the first unit of which has been completed at a cost of
some $35,000, and on the adjoining lot there is a pastor's home valued at some
$7,500. About a mile away is the Maffitt Village Church which was begun
at a mission of the Sunset Park Church. The Convention has put no money
into this project, except indirectly through Sunset Park.
At Carolina Beach there stands a lovely building, and on the lot adjoining
there is a commodious pastor's home, the two together being worth around
$30,000.
Money has been borrowed by the congregations of these churches, with the
endorsement of the Trustees of the Convention. The title to the property
remains with the Convention, but payments on the loans are being made monthly
by the congregations of the churches.
In Fayetteville there is the Immanuel Church, almost completely paid for,
and Trinity Church, valued at some $22,500, nearing completion. Into the
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Trinity Church the Convention is putting about $6,000, the New South River
about $4,000, and the remaining money is being raised, or borrowed, by the
church. The title for this property is held by the trustees of the church and
not by the Convention. An effort is now being made to establish a church in
the Spring Lake section, north of Fort Bragg, where there are some two to
three thousand people living.
The Convention owns lots in Wilmington and Holly Ridge upon which no
buildings have been erected.
It is likely that the greater part of the money needed for the war areas has
already been expended.
7. Lots in Other Areas : In areas other than the war areas the Board
has continued its policy of purchasing lots in growing and strategic centers.
Within the year lots have been purchased in Burlington, Greensboro, Thomas-
ville. In the rural areas some churches have been aided in order that they
might relocate.
8. Allied Church League : Last year reference was made to the fact that
the Allied Church League had been organized and that Mr. L. A. Martin of
Lexington had become the Executive Director. An appropriation of $5,500
was made from State Mission funds for the support of this work. We record
here as a matter of record that the two Methodist Conferences in the State
appropriated a like amount. Some support has come also from other de-
nominations. Mr. Martin has been busy throughout the year visiting in the
churches and in general meetings among Baptists and other denominations
seeking to arouse the people to the evils of traffic in alcoholic beverages. One
must admit that it is about time something was being done when we reflect
that during the present year perhaps $70,000,000 will be expended in North
Carolina for liquor, beer and wine. Our appropriation should be increased
somewhat in order that an assistant to Mr. Martin may be secured. There is
reason to believe that the Methodist Conferences are ready to increase their
appropriations.
Perhaps the most effective piece of work Mr. Martin has done is in the
publication of the paper ToMorrow. It is on the whole, we think, the best
publication of its kind, and we rejoice that the circulation has now reached
upwards of around 10,000. Pastors and other church leaders would do well
to give it circulation among the membership of the churches.
Last year the Convention, as provided by the Constitution of the Allied
Church League, nominated to the League fifty-five members. The same should
be done by this Convention.
9. Associational Missionaries : Perhaps the most outstanding develop-
ment in our work has been the employment of a great number of associational
missionaries. There are at present about twenty men and women giving full
time to this work, and many other associations are calling for them. It has
been the policy of the Board to provide about one-half of the salary of many
of these missionaries. In some instances the full salary is being taken care
of by the associations themselves, and in one instance the General Board is
paying only the traveling expense. We know of no case in which the leaders
of an Association attempted to raise funds for this purpose and failed. The
main problem now is not one of raising the money, but rather one of securing
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well-qualified workers. Some of the workers who have been secured are with-
out much experience, but efforts have been made through conferences of
various kinds to acquaint them with the opportunities and problems involved
in the work. The job needs very much to be done. There are nearly half a
million unreached possibilities for our Sunday schools ; there are perhaps a
quarter of a million prospects for the Training Unions ; and on the whole one
may say that fully one-third of the members of our churches are almost wholly
unenlisted in the total work of the church. These conditions state the task
of the associational missionary, working always to aid the pastor in every way
possible. Perhaps no more significant movement is taking place among us now
than the increased attention given to associational mission work.
In this connection mention should be made of the cooperation of the Home
Mission Board in the City Mission work. At the present time the General
Board is cooperating with the Home Mission Board in carrying on work in
Durham and the Mount Zion Association under the leadership of F. D. Hemp-
hill, and in Greensboro and the Piedmont Association under the leadership of
T. L. Sasser. Plans have just been completed for the employment of H.
Fletcher Lambert in the Raleigh Association.
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IV. THE YEAR 1945
In the foregoing paragraphs we have undertaken to mention some matters
to which special attention has been given during the present year. In the fol-
lowing paragraphs we call attention to some matters which must claim our
attention in the year ahead, including of course a continuance of those things
which have been mentioned in the preceding paragraphs.
1. The Southern Baptist Centennial Crusade: In a very real sense
North Carolina Baptists are called upon to be Southern Baptists during the
next year. In connection with their Centennial, Southern Baptists are seeking
to place the main emphasis in the months ahead on evangelism here at home
and on an increased support for a world program both at home and abroad.
In short Southern Baptists are seeking to win a million people in the southland
to Christ in 1945. If we in North Carolina do our part we must seek to win
at least one hundred thousand. Then in planning for a world mission program
we must undertake to step up receipts through the Undesignated Cooperative
Program by at least one-third. Southern Baptists are thinking in terms of a
goal of $20,000,000 in 1945, including of course all gifts to missions, Christian
education and benevolence. This means that in North Carolina we must under-
take a goal of $2,000,000. It is believed that total receipts will reach $1,600,000
this year ; and this means we must step up our gifts by $400,000.
In this .connection we point out that a convergence of events is forcing upon
individuals and upon churches the making of great decisions. These events
are: Most churches are now out of debt on their buildings and are now in
position to enlarge their gifts to the objects of the Convention — missions, edu-
cation and benevolence. This can be done without the giving of any more
money than they have been giving. The question to be decided is whether
they are as much interested in missions as in the erection of a church building.
In the second place the Convention itself will be out of debt, or very nearly
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out, and therefore, in a position to construct rather than merely to pay for
what was constructed years ago.
In the third place the centennial of the Southern Convention should greatly
stimulate renewed emphasis in evangelism at home and missions abroad.
Then the war will, we trust, be over soon and the lights, physically speaking,
will again come on all over the world. It will be a magnificent opportunity
for the Christian people of the world to see to it that the light from above
is also turned on.
Whether we like it or not these facts are forcing upon individuals and
churches, we repeat, the making of great decisions. With the debts paid there
should dawn a new day for our educational institutions as well as for our
benevolent institutions, the Hospital and the Orphanage. In the providence
of God we are matched with a great hour. God forbid that we should fail.
2. The Truett Memorial Church : The membership of the Hayesville
Baptist Church, now worshiping in an inadequate, wooden building, are de-
sirous of erecting a new building to be known as the Truett Memorial Church.
The membership is not large and a large building will not be needed. It is
believed, however, that it should be beautiful, and the desire is to build it out
of western North Carolina stone. Perhaps $25,000 will be needed. At first
it was the thought of those interested in the project to issue invitations to
friends of Dr. Truett in other states to have a part in the erection of this
building. Upon further reflection, however, it is our thought that the appeal
should be made to North Carolina Baptists alone. We are well able to do it,
and perhaps will hardly miss the amount needed. Accordingly the General
Board is making a recommendation, which will be found at the end of this
report.
It should be added that within the year much repair work has been done
at the birthplace of Dr. Truett, which is located about a mile from Hayesville,
and which is now owned by the Baptist State Convention. A new roof has
been placed on the house, the porches repaired, and some grading has been
done on the road which will enable those who visit the place to encircle the
house, thus making it much easier for the visitor. The State Historical Com-
mission has been asked to place a steel marker on the highway. We have
assurance that this will be done once the war is over and steel is again avail-
able for such purposes.
3. The Fruitland Institute Property: This property is owned jointly by
the Home Mission Board and our Convention. It has a value of perhaps
$75,000. A tentative offer of $20,000 has been received' for the property. This
offer has brought up anew the consideration of possible uses to which the
property may be put. An idea has been advanced that it might be found
useful for a group of underprivileged children in the State who are not being
cared for by our Convention forces. These are children who cannot qualify
as full orphans but who for all practical purposes may be more underprivileged
than are many orphans. The only institution of this kind in the State, Alex-
ander Schools located at Union Mills, is doing a noble work in meeting the
needs of these children. Information has come to us, however, that this school
cannot meet the needs. It may be that the Fruitland Institute property could
be utilized to good advanage for such a purpose. To this end a recommenda-
tion is made at the end of this report.
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90.
V. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
We bring to the Convention the letter of the auditor and a brief statement
of receipts and expenditures for the twelve months period ending September
30, 1944. At the end of the calendar year, which is the fiscal year of the
Convention, a more detailed audit for the calendar year 1944 will be presented.
Auditor's Statement
Executive Committee of the General Board
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
Gentlemen:
According to your instructions, we have audited the books and records of the Convention for the
twelve months ended September 30, 1944, and prepared the following statements of cash receipts and
disbursements.
All cash receipts were found to have been promptly deposited in the banks and disbursements were
supported by cancelled checks, invoices, etc., with expenses properly classified. Our examination did
not disclose any evidence of irregularities and we believe the funds have been carefully and honestly
handled and all accounted for.
After the books have been closed for the current calendar year we will complete the audit and report
to you in detail the income and expenditures for 1944.
Raleigh, N. C.
October 30, 1944.
Respectfully submitted,
A. T. Allen & Company,
Certified Public Accountants.
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1944
Cash
Balance
10-1-43
Receipts for
Fiscal
Year
Disbursements
for Fiscal
Year
Cash
Balance
9-30-44
GENERAL FUND
Receipts:
From Churches Undesignated-,
Disbursements:
General
Promotion
Woman's Missionary Union
£ 49,386.31
Total Disbursements General Fund
and Ending Cash Balance
STATE MISSIONS
Receipts:
Designated Funds
Miscellaneous Income:
Baptist Foundation
Baptist Sunday School Board
Gifts for Oteen Support
Refund— B. T. A. Assembly
Rent McCullers Church
From Churches for Pastors' Salaries
Camp Areas
Share of General Fund — IS per cent
2 4,991.31
$ 62,538.19
465.00
11,167.34
714.88
760.25
12.00
1,902.95
97,012.97
Total Beginning Cash Balance and
Receipts
$ 4,991.31
$ 174,573.58
20,802.14
15,399.80
13,184.37
$ 49,386.31
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CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— Continued
Cash
Balance
10-1-43
Receipts for
Fiscal
Year
Disbursements
for Fiscal
Year
Cash
Balance
9-30-44
Disbursements:
Department of Christian Education in the
Churches:
3 16,078.70
12,979.47
13,132.44
7,401.74
1,840.00
3,146.00
1,800.00
13,800.29
34,620.26
29,265.01
3,300.00
6,063.15
82.25
2,365.21
1,703.47
1,893.92
431.00
355.34
704.79
600.00
17,300.44
1,907.65
402.31
Other State Mission Work:
i
Miscellaneous:
Workers for Temperance and Allied
Subscriptions to Pastors ■ — ■ Biblical
Salaries — Recording and Statistical
Preparation Manuscript History of
Total Disbursements and End-
$ 171,173.44
$ 8,391.45
$ 6,863.23
3 2,050.00
MINISTERS' RELIEF FUND— SPECIAL
Receipts:
From Baptist Foundation and Beginning
$ 3,125.00
$ 5,788.23
$ 1,042.46
6,467.55
EDUCATION MINISTERIAL AID
Receipts:
Designated Funds and from Baptist Foun-
$ 6,892.50
Share of General Fund — 1 per cent
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
$ 3,232.61
$ 7,510.01
Disbursements:
Total Disbursements and Ending
? 6,892.50
$ 3,850.12
$ 28,626.09
32,337.65
NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITAL FUND
Receipts:
$ 2,957.44
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
$ 60,963.74
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CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— Continued
Cash
Balance
10-1-43
Receipts for
Fiscal
Year
Disbursements
for Fiscal
Year
Cash
Balance
9-30-44
Disbursements:
3 11,577.06
23,250.00
1,647.84
24,400.00
612.00
Payments on Note — Wachovia Bank and
Payments on Interest — Wachovia Bank
Payments on Note — Security Life and
Payments on Interest — Security Life and
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 61,486.90
3 2,434.28
3 8,178.25
MINISTERS' RETIREMENT FUND
Receipts:
Share of General Fund — 1943 2 per cent—
3 7,383.88
1,642.50
286.10
2,488.36
3 3,821.83
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
Balance
3 8,178.25
Disbursements:
Office Expense and Equipment, Printing
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 11,800.84
3 199.24
3 41,637.03
2,234.31
65,000.00
WAKE FOREST CHAPEL BUILDING
FUND
Receipts:
3 1,183.99
45,300.00
50,000.00
2,405.00
14.00
Transfer of Unexpended Balance at
12-31-43:
From Current Support by order of Fx-
3 7,416.69
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
3 108,871.34
Disbursements:
Salaries, Travel, House Rent, Printing,
To Treasurer — Wake Forest Chapel Build-
Paid on Notes — Wachovia Bank and Trust
Co
Paid on Interest — Wachovia Bank and
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 98,902.99
3 2,551.66
3 2,389.67
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
Receipts:
3 2,114.32
3 30.08
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
Balance - .
3 2,389.67
Disbursements:
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 2,114.32
3 305.43
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CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— Continued
Cash
Balance
10-1-43
Receipts for
Fiscal
Year
Disbursements
for Fiscal
Year
Cash
Balance
9-30-44
LOUISVILLE SEMINARY CHAPEL
Receipts:
Designated Funds and Beginning Balance.
? 3,604.45
3 3,550.45
Disbursements:
Remitted to Southern Baptist Theological
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 3,550.45
3 54.00
$ 667.52
153,428.07
55,847.77
education CONVENTION DEBT
Receipts:
3 182,500.00
3,850.00
14,000.00
1,000.00
4,749.75
121.00
150.90
65.00
Share of General Fund (1943 23 per cent —
1944 24 per cent)_._ -.-
Apportionment from Hundred Thousand
Club
224,614.79
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
3 209,943.36
Disbursements:
Borrowed Money Repaid — Wachovia Bank
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 206,436.65
3 28,121.50
3 3,537.25
90,545.44
EDUCATION CURRENT SUPPORT
Receipts:
3 2,234.31
82,425.00
1,350.00
315.57
321,138.10
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
3 94,082.69
Disbursements:
Transfer to Wake Forest Chapel Building
Fund Unexpended Balance at 12-31-43
Expense Education Commission and Coun-
cil
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 86,324.88
3 28,895.91
3 67,770.79
51,248.83
190,815.35
2,376.79
258,701.21
SOUTHWIDE OBJECTS FUND
Receipts:
Designations — Ministerial Relief — Regular
341,750.44
Total Receipts and Beginning Cash
3 570,912.97
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CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— Continued
Cash
Balance
10-1-43
Receipts for
Fiscal
Year
Disbursements
for Fiscal
Year
Cash
Balance
9-30-44
Disbursements:
3 251,559.84
12,899.90
194,587.25
51,066.77
2,234.45
55,847.77
Paid on Designations Hundred Thousand
Club (Oct. Nov. & Dec. 1943 50 per cent
Foreign Mission Designations and Expenses.
Home Mission Designations and Expenses.
Ministerial Relief — Regular — Designations
Apportionment of Hundred Thousand Club
Total Disbursements and Ending
3 568,195.98
3 37,616.07
Due State Program from September
Designations Hundred Thousand
6,851.36
3101,983.14
31,292,466.37
31,269,390.26
GRAND TOTALS
3125,059.25
91.
VI. DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS
A. HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
During the twelve months period ending September 30, 1944, we have for-
warded for all Southern Baptist Convention objects $512,744.08, a gain of
$117,406.46 over the preceding year. During a corresponding period ending
September 30, 1943, the gain over the preceding year was $74,873.42.
Undesignated funds for Southern Baptist Convention objects during 1944
are divided as follows :
Per Cent
Foreign Mission Board 50
Home Mission Board 23 1/3
Relief and Annuity Board 10 1/3
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 4 1/5
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 4 1/5
Baptist Bible Institute 4 1/5
W. M. U. Training School 8 1/5
American Baptist Theological Seminary 1 1/2
Southern Baptist Hospital 1 7/10
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B. STATE MISSIONS
Introduction
In the first part of this report attention has been called to those matters
which received our main emphasis in 1944. In that connection mention was
made of many of the phases of State Mission work. We do not repeat those
here. We do call attention to the fact that we believe an aggressive State
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Mission program has been carried on, and of course we are committed to the
proposition that such a program must be continued.
Last year we were enabled to lay aside in reserve $15,000 out of State
Mission funds. While money is plentiful it is felt that this should be done
in order that we may be able to meet the needs which certainly will arise in
the event there is a decline in receipts. It is hoped that another $15,000 may
be laid aside out of this year's receipts. This money has been deposited with
the Baptist Foundation, and is now earning interest which is being used for
State Mission work. In the event this fund should not be needed in the future
there will always be the interest accruing for State Mission work.
1. General Missionaries
In the report last year we made mention of the election of E. Lowell Spivey
to succeed Douglas M. Branch. Mr. Spivey was quite ill for a time early in
this year. We record with joy, however, the fact that after weeks in the
hospital he has resumed work. Living in Charlotte he is able to touch that
great area of our State that is very difficult for one living in Raleigh to touch.
His work has been marked by enthusiasm and devotion, together with ability.
As yet the Board has not been able to secure anyone to succeed M. O.
Alexander, who resigned early in the year and to which reference is made in
another part of this report.
Brief reports from our two General Missionaries follows :
(a) Report of J. C. Pipes
Below is a brief summary of my work as General Missionary of the Bap-
tist State Convention of North Carolina from October 1, 1943 to September
30, 1944.
I attended eight annual associations.
Conducted four Sunday School study courses of one week each.
Held five evangelistic revivals.
Held six pastors' revivals of one week each.
Attended numbers of one-day pastors' conferences and pre-
sented different phases of our Convention work.
Attended one pastors' school at Mars Hill.
Conducted thirteen one-week stewardship revivals.
Assisted in two one-week associational wide schools of mis-
sions.
Attended the Baptist State Convention, and the Sunday School
Convention.
Attended a part of the week of Home Mission Conferences at
Ridgecrest.
Besides the above I have served as part-time pastor of the Macedonia Bap-
tist Church in the Buncombe Association. I have given as much time as
possible to this little country church. The church has responded in a great
way to the whole program of Baptists. They have given for all causes more
than $3100 as compared with the gifts of $1300 during the previous year.
As best I can see the people of the churches where I have worked are
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more open to teaching and more responsive to the Program of Jesus than I
have ever known before. Even the small country churches that have never
had any organized financial system are anxious to work out budgets and in-
clude in these budgets all the objects sponsored by our Baptist State Conven-
tion. The spirit in the Associations that I have attended this year is the best
I have ever known. It seems to me that our people in general are getting a
world vision of Christ's Kingdom and are responding to that vision in a great
way. Where there is vision the people grow.
(b) Report of E. L. Spivey
October 1, 1943 I entered the field as your general missionary. The pastors
and people of our churches have been very gracious in their encouragement
and co-operation. I am grateful for their fellowship as "workers together
with God." Our General Secretary, Mr. M. A. Huggins has been patient with
my inexperience, most helpful in my efforts, and very considerate in my af-
fliction. I wish here to record my debt of gratitude to this incomparable leader
of North Carolina Baptists.
I offer below a brief summary of my activities during the past year :
Participated in IS annual associational meetings. Presented
the work of State Missions to 24 missionary societies, Sunday
Schools and churches. Delivered 15 stewardship messages; con-
ducted 2 stewardship revivals ; worked in 3 pastors' schools, one
Training Union School ; and participated in three schools of mis-
sions.
Visited 48 pastors and churches in the interest of the Wake
Forest College Chapel, and communicated with 34 others by let-
ters and telephone.
Made many contacts in the interest of 100,000 club, the Retire-
ment Plan, and the annual Pastors' School at Gardner-Webb
College.
Assisted pastors in 6 evangelistic meetings.
Visited 8 mission Sunday Schools and churches.
Attended the annual meetings of the General Board, the State
Sunday School Convention, the Baptist State Convention, and the
South-wide Bible Teaching Clinic.
Spoke at dedication of 3 churches ; participated in 3 ordination
services.
Attended part of the Home Mission Week at Ridgecrest.
Participated in several pastors' conferences.
Discussed the work of the Convention with many pastors and
laymen.
Met with several Associational Missionaries and Associational
Leaders in planning work for 1944-45.
Spoke over the radio five times on Stewardship and Missions
and related subjects.
Supplied for 13 pastors and pastorless churches.
Cancelled 12 weeks of engagements, Feb. 13 to June 4, because
of illness.
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May we dedicate afresh our lives and our substance to the Great Crusade
for Christ during the coming year.
2. Missionary Pastoral Assistance
We give below a summary of the work done by our missionary pastors
from October 1, 1943 through September 30, 1944:
Number of Missionary Pastors 66
Number of churches aided 121
Sermons 5,842
Other addresses 2,748
Revivals held 128
Training Classes conducted 59
Visits made 21,682
Conversions 1,150
Baptisms 902
Additions other than by baptism 900
Churches repaired or being built 42
Subscriptions secured to Charity and Children 232
Subscriptions secured to Biblical Recorder 630
Subscriptions secured to Mission Magazines 463
The following amounts were reported as gifts made by churches during
the period:
Building and Repairs $ 63,476
Pastors' Salaries 72,284
Undesignated Cooperative Program 13,690
State Missions 1,548
Home Missions 739
Foreign Missions 3,448
Heck Memorial 67
Education 756
Hundred Thousand Club 1,371
Orphanage 6,864
Aid in Evangelistic Meetings 1,794
Hospital 2,046
Local Charity, Red Cross, Polio Hospital 1,868
American Bible Society 101
Total $170,052
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3. Church Extension
The Board has numerous calls for help on buildings from all over the State.
In most cases the Board has not been able to meet these requests. Except in
most unusual cases help on buildings has been confined to the war areas where
buildings were urgently needed, and where churches had to be organized and
the work started. The Convention had to take the lead in such instances, or
nothing could have been done in most cases. The Convention has followed its
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policy of buying choice lots in growing residential sections and holding them
until such time as it seemed wise to organize churches. The Board could spend
profitably fifty to one hundred thousand dollars in all sections of the State in
aiding poorly located churches in the country to abandon their old buildings
located far away from the highways and relocate on the highways where they
would be more accessible to the membership. We are happy to announce that
some progress has been made in this direction. Only a lack of funds prevents
the doing of the thing we know ought to be done.
We give below a statement of funds expended from November 1, 1943
through September 30, 1944.
Church Association Amount
Boone Three Forks $ 1,500.00
Calvary Raleigh 375.00
Carolina Beach Wilmington 7,000.00
Cool Springs Three Forks 100.00
Emmanuel Mecklenburg 500.00
Fairfield Chowan 118.55
Fairview Gaston 125.00
Farmer Memorial Ashe 50.00
Immanuel, Fayetteville Roanoke 738.69
Little Glade .West Liberty 100.00
Long View Macon 200.00
Maffitt Village Wilmington 500.00
McConnell Road Mission Piedmont 150.00
McLeansville .Piedmont 200.00
Montvale Transylvania 100.00
New River Alleghany 180.00
North Beaver Ashe 200.00
North Warrenton Tar River 50.00
Pembroke (Indian) Burnt Swamp 147.50
Pullen Memorial Raleigh 2,750.00
Sunset Park Wilmington 6,641.14
Topton Western N. Carolina 100.00
Union Roanoke 150.00
West Greensboro Piedmont 753.75
West Thomasville Liberty 1,200.00
Windsor Terrace Fayetteville 5,000.00
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Total $28,929.63
4. Work Among the Indians
Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Underwood continue their work among the Indians
in Robeson County. A year or two ago the Indians themselves erected a small
home at Pembroke for orphan children. The Board is happy that Mr. and
Mrs. Underwood have been able to have some part in carrying on that work.
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They make reference to this phase of the work in the brief report of their
work for the year ending September 30, 1944, which follows :
The past years has marked progress in the Burnt Swamp Association.
The Indian people are interested in their church activities and their reports
show steady gains. Once they have caught the vision, they press toward the
mark of the prize of the high calling.
Two new churches have been organized and buildings for worship have
been erected for the same. This makes a total of twenty-seven churches in
the Association. Several other church buildings have been improved, enlarged,
painted and the grounds beautified. A desire for the esthetic is developing
among the Indians.
Two new Sunday schools have been organized, thus making a Sunday
school in every church. Training courses have been held in important centers.
An associational organization of the Sunday schools has monthly meetings and
is doing efficient work under the leadership of J. L. Carter. Eight Vacation
Bible Schools were held with great success. More were planned but were
held up due to the polio conditions.
Evangelism was stressed among the churches during the year. Every
church had one or more revivals. The pastors often did their own preaching,
but were sometimes assisted by other pastors. Outside help was secured in a
few cases. In addition to the meetings, evangelism was stressed in the camps,
Vacation Bible Schools and Training Courses. As a result nearly two hun-
dred conversions were reported during the year.
The Pastors' Conference meets monthly, with a planned program of timely
topics for discussion. After the meeting refreshments are served. On three
occasions they were favored with guest speakers : Rev. Ernest Grigg, returned
missionary from India and now of Canada; Rev. G. G. Lanter of Winston-
Salem and Dr. Walt N. Johnson of Salisbury. All of these brought inspiring
messages which were appropriate for the occasion. Dr. Johnson also led a
three-day institute for our preachers.
The Woman's Missionary Union reports a good year, having made sub-
stantial gains. An interesting development in connection with this work is
the camp movement for boys and girls. Much interest has developed con-
cerning the movement, and a committee has been appointed to study the situa-
tion with a view of establishing an Associational Camping Ground.
The Orphanage is managed and operated by the Indians. The Oldham
Home for girls has been open for two years, and much of that time it has
been filled to capacity, eight to ten. The expense of the home is largely taken
care of by offerings from the church, coming either through special offerings
in the Sunday schools or through the church budgets. Every church in the
Association has made some contribution. Gifts from outside sources are wel-
comed and greatly appreciated. A fund for the erection of a home for boys
has begun and $2,022.34 has been raised for this purpose.
Total collections for the year :
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For local church expenses $21,866.43
For local Orphanage 3,341.39
For Missions 1,000.21
For Hospital 348.50
Total $26,556.53
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5. Cooperative Work with the General Baptist
State Convention
C. E. Griffin continues as the General Secretary of the Negro Baptist Con-
vention in the State. It is a joy to the General Board to be in a position to
aid our Negro brethren in this way, and we rejoice in the progress they are
making. We enter here the report for the year ending September 30, 1944 as
presented by Secretary Griffin.
A. Report of activities of the office of Brother J. F. Wertz, Director of
Religious Education and Training :
Sermons preached 84
Lectures delivered 91
Training Units organized 11
Training Courses held 69
Conferences held 37
Conference Leaders 14
Credits received 300
Faculty members 14
Enrollment 600
Sunday School and B. T. U. Conventions 13
Teacher Training Courses 8
Vacation Bible Training Schools 23
Institutes held 29
Miles traveled 10,157
Amount spent traveling $302.71
Letters sent out 2,035
Meals paid for 25
B. Report of activities of Brother C. E. Griffin, Executive Secretary :
Sermons preached 125
Lectures delivered 191
Ministers visited 726
Miles traveled 21,261
Amount spent traveling $639.83
Amount spent for meals $ 47.44
Number of letters sent out 35,247
In submitting my report covering the past twelve months from October 1,
1943 to September 30, 1944, I do so in a most humble and reverent spirit to
our Heavenly Father who has been my constant and ever-present guide and
strength. Therefore, first of all, I wish to acknowledge my profound grati-
tude to God for His continued and abiding blessings and mercies granted unto
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me and the life and work of our Baptist people. Our people have been most
kind and cooperative in all our work of which I am deeply grateful.
During the past year our Lord has richly blessed our work in every field
of endeavor. Every worker of our Convention has done a marvelous job in
making this year perhaps the best year in the annuals of Baptist activity in
this great State of ours. Our conventional " leaders have surpassed their
own expectations. The spirit of harmony and cooperation in every area
is most encouraging; the manifest interest on the part of our entire constit-
uency is unusually high ; and the financial contributions given reached a new
peak. As a result of this almost phenominal growth, we come at the close of
this fiscal year without a single liability. Thus I am grateful to report that
we close the year with all our obligations paid in full. This applies to both
our conventional expenses and to our objectives.
Associational Pastors' Conferences
Perhaps one of the contributive factors toward our growth was the pro-
motion of our Pastors' Conferences promoted in our Associations held this
year beginning in March and going through June and part of July. After
our Executive Committee had approved the resuming of these conferences for
this year, plans were set forth and conferences were held in every association
for Pastors and leaders with only a very few exceptions. Out of 56 associa-
tions conferences were held in 53 of them. These conferences turned out to
be more than small groups who resided close by attending them. Each modera-
tor cooperated to the extent that his entire association was called and a full
day was spent in heart-to-heart talks >about our state program. Obviously the
value of such contacts as these conferences afforded are inestimable. Too
much thanks and praise cannot be given to the moderators, Pastors, and
workers in these associations for such splendid cooperation in making these
conferences possible.
Our Baptist Headquarters
Another contributive factor to the progress of our work no doubt is the
Baptist Headquarters in Raleigh on the campus of Shaw University. The
Headquarters is fastly becoming the center of Baptist activity. Our con-
stituency is beginning to look toward the Headquarters as standing for a
symbol of Baptist interest and achievements. It is looked upon as a symbol
of Baptist unity. Many Baptists attending to the work of the denomination
or attending to the affairs for their own local church have passed through the
portals of our Headquarters during these twelve months. Certainly this sym-
bol has gone a long ways in further and more completely cementing the spirit
of unification of all Baptist activity in North Carolina for Baptists in every
area, "nook and corner" of the state are working together as never before.
Nearly every association attended by us this year made new and special reso-
lutions to adopt the program of our General Baptist Convention as their re-
spective program. Churches visited were found reorganizing their own local
program to inculcate the program of their state denominational Program This
is indeed gratifying and encouraging.
Another outstanding event was the Annual Minister's Conference and Insti-
tute. Each year it is a part of our program to cooperate with Shaw University
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in holding an Annual Minister's Conference and Institute combined with the
Woman's Missionary Conference, Sunday School and Baptist Training Union
Conference. It was held at Shaw University, from June 12th to June 16th,
1944. This was a very fine conference. Over 500 were in attendance. Also,
Minister's Institutes were held in 21 centers involving 27 courses for an ag-
gregate period of instruction of 47 weeks.
One of the great contributing factors is surely found in the fact of the
constant, and, I hope, ever abiding, spirit of cooperation existing between our
friends — all of them, of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and
us. This spirit of cooperation cannot be estimated in terms of dollars and
cents for it is far deeper and more significant than that. Personally, I have
received untold value in the contacts made at your annual conventions as well
as contacts made throughout the year over the state in various ways. For
instance the service rendered by Mr. Morgan and the other workers at our
State Sunday School arid Baptist Training Union Conventions in Raleigh this
years is beyond value. Our people believe in the leadership of the Baptist
State Convention. May our Heavenly Father continue to bless this relationship.
The Negro Baptists of North Carolina join me in giving thanks for your
support to our work.
95.
6. Oteen Mission
We continue, with some aid from other states, to support the work at Oteen,
and Chaplain Ottis Hagler continues in that position. It will be remembered
that this work has been very close to the Baptists of the Buncombe Associa-
tion, and they likewise have continued their support. A brief report from
Chaplain Hagler follows :
There have been many changes at Oteen Hospital since our
last Annual Report. The whole program for hospitalizing the
tubercular veteran has been greatly accelerated and expanded.
Renovation and remodeling of all buildings has been completed
so that instead of caring for 850 patients our capacity is now
1,260. As of this date we are caring for 1,095 patients. This
number includes soldiers, sailors, marines, army and navy nurses,
WACS, and WAVES. There are at present 570 veterans of
World War II. It is expected that our capacity will be reached
shortly and further expansion undertaken.
On October 29, 1943 the present Chaplain, Ottis J. Hagler, was
critically injured in an automobile accident. From that date until
September 1st of the present year Willis Bennett, pastor of the
Oteen Church, served as Alternate Chaplain. Chaplain Hagler
slowly improved and returned to part-time duty May 1, 1944,
conducting the worship services and doing some visitation. On
July 1st he assumed duty once again as full-time Post Chaplain.
During the year 2,130 patients have been received. Each of
these was visited by the Chaplain on the Receiving Ward. All
patients are classified according to denominational affiliation or
preference. Forty-five per cent are Baptist. About eleven per
~°nt are Catholic and a full-time Catholic Chaplain is provided.
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Worship services are conducted in the Chapel for ambulatory
patients and broadcast throughout the hospital for bed-patients.
Devotional literature, Bibles, and Testaments are distributed by
the Chaplain. This material is supplied by the various denomina-
tional publishing houses and the American Bible Society. A pro-
gram of regular visitation is carried on. Special attention is
given the Receiving Ward and Surgery. The critically ill pa-
tients have a priority on the Chaplain's time. The Chaplain is
on call 24 hours a day and is available to all.
We remember the words of Jesus "I was sick and ye visited
me." The work of the Chaplain is made possible by the coopera-
tive support of the Veterans' Administration, Buncombe Associa-
tion, and the State Mission Program of the various Conventions.
Pray for Oteen and the men and women who have given their
health in service of country!
96.
7. Sanatorium^
We present a brief report from Pastor E. M. Harris of Aberdeen, who
continues his work with the sick at the State Sanatorium and with the girls
at Samarcand. Last year we presented a report from our representative at the
Western North Carolina Sanatorium at Black Mountain, J. N. Watson, who
was also pastor of the Black Mountain Church. He did an excellent work
there, but resigned in April to accept the pastorate at Marshville Church. For
some months we were without a representative there. H. W. Baucom, Sr.,
has now become the pastor of the Black Mountain Church, and has become
the representative of the Board at Western North Carolina Sanatorium. With
his past rich experience in this field we can count on him to provide a most
helpful service to the sick at the sanatorium.
Brother Harris sends us the following :
There is possibly no phase of a pastor's work that is more
appreciated than his ministry to the sick. There are about six
hundred and fifty patients at the North Carolina Sanatorium —
men, women and children of all ages, who come from all sections
of the State. Some have been there for years and others for
just a few weeks, not long enough to get over their homesickness.
To most of them a visit from a pastor, an encouraging word, or
a brief prayer means much.
In our efforts to bring a little sunshine into their lonely lives
we know no denominational lines. However, if we happen to
know they are of our own faith and order we have a point of
contact that is helpful. So you see if friends will be kind enough
to send us a note or card and give us the name and church of
which the individual is a member we may be able to render a
more helpful service, and that in the early part of the patient's
stay in the institution. With the scarcity of gas and tires loved
ones and friends do not visit the Sanatorium as much as they did
some years ago, which makes our ministry even more needed than
before. Please let us know if you have a friend or loved one at
the North Carolina Sanatorium.
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97.
8. Samarcand
(From E. M. Harris)
This year we have sent out twenty-six church letters to girls who have re-
turned home or have been placed in Christian homes. Twenty-seven girls have
been baptized upon a profession of faith. They have been given baptismal
certificates and New Testaments. Lists of Baptist girls have been given to
some Y. W. A. organizations who have remembered the Samarcand girls in
one way or another. When you are instrumental in making a Samarcand girl
feel that some one is interested in her and cares, it helps her to try harder.
We have helped place some girls in good Christian homes, and so far as we
know every one is making good. Mrs. Harris and I often hear from some of
the girls who have gone out from Samarcand. In order to vary the report
and give our Baptist people some little idea of one phase of our work, I
shall quote a few lines from a letter or two, of course omitting places and
names :
"Dear Mr. Harris : I will write you to tell you how much I
appreciate the services at Samarcand. I am getting along just
fine now and I go to church every chance I get. It is a long ways
from my home to church. I want you to know I sure do appre-
ciate your services at Samarcand and I want you to remember
me in prayer — I know you will'. So I am going to do the best I
can and make a lady out of myself. From a girl who was once
in Samarcand."
I copy from another letter :
"Dear Mr. Harris : Will drop you a few lines to let you know
I still go to church. I want my church membership transferred
to Baptist Church. Give Mrs. Harris my very best regards.
I often think of you all. I can't thank you enough for what you
have done for me. I appreciate it very much. I won't forget
the 24th day of September." (The 24th day of September was
the day she was baptized.)
We have received similar letters from a number of the girls, and some from
pastors saying they were greatly pleased with the attitude and faithfulness of
the girls. Some have gone so far as to say their changed attitude has helped
the home life from which they came.
98.
9. Report of Rural Church Committee
(Garland A. Hendricks)
The territory over which the work of the Southern Baptist Convention ex-
tends includes 19 states and the District of Columbia, and embraces about 40
per cent of the land area of the nation and about one-third of the population.
Here about two-thirds of the Baptists of the world live. This is the Bap-
tist stronghold of the world. We have about 5,000,000 white Baptists and
about 4,000,000 Negro Baptists, while there are only about 11,000,000 Baptists
in the United States and about 13,000,000 in the world. About 40 to 45 per
cent of all church members in this region are Baptist.
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The South is a rural region. In 1940 we had only 24 cities with a popula-
tion of over 100,000 each. About one-half of the farm people of the nation
live here. Approximately 25 per cent of the income is from agriculture, as
compared with about 12 per cent for the nation. While we have fast changed
from an agricultural nation living by an agricultural economy to an industrial
nation living by a paper economy, the folks in the South still live closer to an
agricultural economy than any others in America.
About 70 per cent of the people of the South are native-born whites, about
25 per cent are native-born Negroes, and only about 5 per cent are foreign.
Here we have a desirable type of individual, who is steady and reliable. Here
the birth rate exceeds that of any other region, and we provide the source of
the nation's population supply.
The rural South is rich in natural resources and in human wealth, but poor
in technology, artificial wealth, and institutional services. So many of our best
minds consider it necessary for us to become more efficient in turning our
primary forms of wealth into artificial forms of wealth if we are to share in
and benefit by the products and services of an industrial age. At the same time,
it is necessary for us to conserve the values derived from living close to nature
and in* association with large families. To conserve the higher values in a pe-
riod of transition we shall have to keep a religious motivation in the hearts
and a religious interpretation of life in the minds of our leaders and people.
Herein is our great Baptist responsibility and opportunity. A religious
denomination which has gained so large a following amongst the people is in
a position to play an important part in shaping the destiny of the region. We
must make a determining impact upon the new life-movement of the South
with our Baptist principles, policies and programs.
As we prepare to make this impact we must give consideration, emphasis,
recognition, and stimulation to all groups and elements which make up our
great denomination. We must be careful to observe fair play, to maintain
wholesome balance, to look objectively at our difficulties and our opportunities.
We should not turn our attention from any phase or aspect of our work, but
to be at our best we must give due consideration to all of our work.
Here are some facts about our Baptist churches in North Carolina : 80
per cent of the churches are located in the open country or in villages, and
about 60 per cent of all church members belong to these churches. 80 per
cent of the churches have fewer than 300 members each, and more than half
of all members are in these churches. By nature our denomination is pre-
dominantly rural and small-church. In recent years we have tended to mini-
mize the values contributed by and the importance of the work of the rural
churches and the small churches.
What about the condition of the churches? A study of the associational
minutes of forty-five associations for 1941 reveals the following facts : 34 per
cent of the rural and 80 per cent of the city churches reported mid-week
prayer services. Churches reporting baptisms: rural, 71 per cent; city, 90
per cent. Number of members per baptism : country, 24 ; village, 31 ; city, 29.
82 per cent of the rural buildings are constructed of wood, but 69 per cent of
the city buildings are constructed of brick or stone. 72 per cent of the value
of all church property is accredited to the 20 per cent of the churches located
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in the cities. Churches carrying insurance : rural, 24 per cent ; city 80 per
cent. Churches owning pastor's homes : country, 4 per cent ; village, 22 per
cent; city, 60 per cent. Average value of the pastor's homes: rural, $2,152.00;
city, $5,734.00. Churches having full Training Union : country, 5 per cent ;
village, 10 per cent; city, 34 per cent. Churches having full W. M. U. : coun-
try, 4 per cent; village, 10 per cent; city, 43 per cent. Churches reporting
Vacation Bible School: country, 15 per cent; village, 36 per cent; city, 50 per
cent. Churches having Sunday School : rural, 97 per cent ; city 98 per cent.
Average number of rooms in the buildings : country, 4 ; village, 9 ; city, 23. Per
capita gifts: country, $3.55; village, $6.80; city, $11.24.
By the nature of our region, by the location of our churches and church
members, and by the condition of our churches one can readily see that the
greatest field for denominational development is the rural church. But at the
present time the personnel of our Convention boards and committees is made
up of the pastors and lay members of a few large urban churches. These are
good men and women, and many of them came from the country. But they
are engaged in urban work, and think along urban lines. A study of the report
of the 1942 Baptist State Convention Committee on Committees shows that the
persons named by that Convention to places of leadership were of the follow-
ing proportions : Town and city pastors, 67 per cent ; laymen, 19 per cent
(most of them from the large churches) ; women, 7 per cent; retired or in-
active persons, 5 per cent ; country and village pastors, 2 per cent. No coun-
try preacher or layman has been President of the Baptist State Convention
since the last term served by the late Rev. R. H. Marsh, who served from 1891
to 1904. Very few rural pastors have preached Convention sermons or par-
ticipated on Convention programs within the past quarter of a century. A
few prominent persons serve in several different positions of responsibility,
while the great masses of North Carolina Baptists are given little or no repre-
sentation in Convention affairs. *
In view of these facts about our region, our churches, and our Convention,
we, the members of the Committee for Study of the Rural Churches, make the
following recommendations to the Convention :
First, that this Convention authorize the General Board and the General
Secretary to employ a full-time rural field worker on the following conditions :
The Convention shall cooperate with the Home Mission Board in working
out plans and in financing the program, and that the worker be called with a
view to a permanent program of rural work in cooperation with all agencies
of the Convention.
Second, that this Convention authorize the General Board to create a stand-
ing Committee on Rural Work to work in co-operation with the rural worker
and the General Secretary in an advisory capacity.
99.
10. Report of the Radio Committee
(Carl M. Townsend, Chairman)
Your Radio Committee cooperated with the Radio Committee of the South-
ern Baptist Convention in broadcasting the Southwide Baptist Hour during
January, February and March of this year. This program was broadcast over
WPTF in Raleigh, WBIG in Greensboro and WSJS in Winston-Salem.
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During the next quarter special recordings of sermons by Dr. George W.
Truett and Dr. M. E. Dodd were broadcast from several stations in North
Carolina.
We call attention to the current series of programs of the North Carolina
Baptist Hour, broadcast each Sunday morning 8 :30-9 :00 A.M. This series,
continuing through October, November and December, is broadcast from
WPTF in Raleigh, WBIG in Greensboro, WSJS in Winston-Salem, and
WSOC in Charlotte. The program on October 22nd was also broadcast from
WWNC in Asheville.
We wish to thank all of these Radio Stations for their splendid cooperation
in broadcasting the North Carolina Baptist Hour, Southwide Baptist Hour,
and the special recordings.
We are delighted to express our sincere appreciation for the splendid work
of the Radio Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention and express our
sincere desire to continue to cooperate with the Committee as appointed by the
Southern Baptist Convention. We believe there is a great opportunity imme-
diately ahead for preaching the Gospel in the ever-widening and increasingly
important field of radio.
We are reminded of the forthcoming Southwide Baptist Hour for 1945
which begins next January 7th. You are urged to acquaint your church with
the hour, the speakers and the stations over which the programs may be heard.
Pastors are requested to contact radio stations in your own communities in
reference to broadcasting these special recorded sermons, including a new
series by Dr. Ralph A. Herring of Winston-Salem, which may be secured
through the Southwide Radio Committee in Ajtlanta, Georgia.
The Committee is deeply grateful to all who have taken a part on the
North Carolina programs and wishes to express to our General Secretary, Mr.
M. A. Huggins, the genuine appreciation of the Committee for his wise coun-
sel and helpfulness during the year.
Carl M. Townsend, Raleigh, N. C.
W. Wilbur Hutchins, High Point, N. C.
Mrs. Glenn Lassiter, Raleigh, N. C.
W. Perry Crouch, Asheville, N. C.
George D. Heaton, Charlotte, N. C.
L. L. Carpenter, Raleigh, N. C.
C. E. Parker, Winston- Salem, N. C.
100.
VII. DEPARTMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
We divide this report on Christian Education into two divisions : A,
Christian Education in the Churches; B, Chrstian Education in the Colleges.
A. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN THE CHURCHES
We present here reports from Mr. Morgan, Mr. Gibson and Mr. Hower-
ton. These reports will reveal the excellent progress that has been made
in all these departments during the year. We believe the programs promoted
by these departments have been richer and fuller than in any previous year.
Annual of Session 1944 101
101.
1. Division of Sunday Schools
L. L. Morgan, Secretary
This is my ninth annual report as secretary, and my nineteenth year with
the Convention. In spite of war conditions and many other things to he
desired, I am more optimistic about the future of our Sunday School work
than I ever have been. It is too early to tell about membership gains or
losses, but that will be recorded in the Statistical Tables and Statistical
Summary in the Convention Annual.
We express sincere appreciation for our Associates in the work who have
rendered excellent service throughout the year : Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lane,
and Mrs. Myra Motley, Associate; Miss Joy Wood, Office Secretary; our
approved and qualified workers : Mrs. L. R. O'Brian, Mrs. C. R. Hinton,
Mrs. C. D. Bain, Mrs. F. A. Bower, Mrs. Clyde Baucom, Mrs. L. L. Car-
penter, Mrs. Harvey Gibson, and Mrs. Ford Burns. We are grateful for
the continual help received from the Baptist Sunday School Board. The
financial aid and the help of a fine field force makes it possible for us to
increase greatly our work in North Carolina. Above all, we appreciate the
continuous effort of Associational Officers, Pastors, Educational Directors,
and the Officers and Teachers in local churches who faithfully work at the
job through the years. No progress is possible except as it comes through
the efforts of these good Soldiers of the Cross.
We were fortunate to have Mrs. Myra Motley who came to us as a full-
time Associate the first of June. She is rapidly making a place for herself
in the hearts of our people. We regret to lose Mr. and Mrs. John Lane to
South Carolina after eight years of faithful service. Mr. Lane is now Train-
ing Union Secretary in South Carolina.
ACHIEVEMENTS
1. State Sunday School Convention :
This meeting was held at the First Baptist Church, High Point, February
1. 2, and 3 with an attendance of about 1,200. The program was of the
highest order and our people were greatly helped. Our next Convention
will be held at the First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, February 6, 7, and
8, 1945.
2. Associational Officers and Conferences:
April 4 at the First Baptist Church, Sanford, and April 6 at the First
Baptist Church, Hickory, our Associational Officers met for a day of Train-
ing and Planning. Most of the Associations were represented and much
good was accomplished. Mr. J. N. Barnette, Mr. W. P. Phillips, Mrs. H. M.
Wynn, and Miss Mary Alice Biby were with us from Nashville.
3. Ridgccrest Assembly:
Interest in Ridgecrest has increased so much that two weeks were given
to Sunday School work. July 5-19 hundreds of our North Carolina leaders
had fellowship and inspiration with leaders from every state in the South.
The program was one of the best, and our people were greatly inspired-
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4. Better Bible Teaching Clinics:
Our Department joined with the Sunday School Departments of Ala-
bama, Georgia, and South Carolina in promoting the Baptist Clinic on Bible
Teaching at La Grange, Georgia in 1942, at Atlanta, Georgia in 1943, and
at Charlotte, North Carolina this year. In Charlotte, we had an average
attendance of 630 and reached more than 1,000 different people. We believe
this type of Clinic is the answer to the need of better teaching in our Sun-
day Schools. By the first of December we will have completed this year
seven of these Association-wide Better Teaching Clinics in North Carolina,
and will have touched more than 4,000 of our leaders with this vital program.
5. Enlargement Campaigns:
Our aim at the beginning of this year was to conduct six Association-
wide Enlargement Campaigns. Despite the fact that war conditions have
been most serious and our State has had a serious epidemic of polio we
have succeeded in conducting five of the Campaigns. One had to be can-
celled entirely and two others were greatly reduced in the number of
churches cooperating. The chart on page 37 shows some of the results of
our efforts. We used the largest number of summer workers we have had
in several years, and they were the best to be found in the South. You
will join us in expressing sincere thanks to all who assisted us through
the year.
6. Vacation Bible Schools:
Until the fifteenth of June, we had the best prospects for a good year in
Vacation School work we have ever had, but like a storm, an epidemic of
polio struck our State and most of the boys and girls were placed under
quarantine for the remainder of the summer. So far we have received 495
reports but they are not all in. We express appreciation to our Associational
Missionaries for their faithful work in conducting a big percentage of the
schools.
7. Training Awards:
The polio epidemic during the summer greatly reduced our Training
work, but we are happy to report that 7,501 awards have been issued from
October 1, 1943 to October 1, 1944. This is only 218 less than we reported
last year.
8. Looking Ahead:
1. January 18 and 19, the Sunday School Board forces will join us in
conducting two Associational Officers Conferences in preparation for the
celebration of our Centennial year in every Association in our State and
Southland, March 6.
2. Our State Sunday School Convention will be held at the First Baptist
Church, Winston-Salem, February 6, 7, and 8, 1945. Dr. G. S. Dobbins and
others will be with us for this meeting.
3. The weeks of June 28-July 4 and July 5-11 have been selected for
Sunday School work at Ridgecrest. We hope to have 800 of our leaders
there. ' Plan now to go.
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4. Already we are planning for six Association-wide Enlargement Cam-
paigns and six Association-wide Better Bible Teaching Clinics.
9. Our Goals:
1. Teacher Training in 1,200 churches.
2. Ten Thousand Training Awards.
3. Special Emphasis upon local Training during April and October.
4. One hundred Standard Sunday Schools.
5. Special Emphasis upon Denominational Days in the Sunday School.
6. A five per cent increase in Sunday School Enrollment.
7. Emphasis upon Teaching for Christian Living.
8. Seven hundred Vacation Bible Schols.
102.
2. Training Union Division
Harvey T. Gibson, Director
PERSONNEL
In another part of this report Secretary Huggins has called attention to
several personnel changes in the Training Union Division. We do not need
to reiterate those changes. However, a word of appreciation needs to be
said concerning the excellent work done by Miss Margaret Sparks during
the past year or two from the time of the resignation of Nathan C. Brooks,
Jr., until after the coming of Mr. Gibson. During this period she was a
tremendous assistance to Mr. Hutchins and also to Mr. Gibson in that she
carried a large responsibility for the promotion of the work.
Miss Mary Lou Wall has served the Department as office secretary for
eight years. Her faithfulness and efficiency, and her knowledge of the many
details of the state training program have been a real contribution to the
growth of the work.
During the summer months the Department was assisted by a number of
college and seminary students and school teachers. They were as follows :
Mary Cox, Juanita Davis, Helen Knott, Martha Jane Mitchell, L. J. New-
ton, Jr., Nora Padgett, Arlene Parnell, James Pegram. Celeste Porter, Cletus
Speagle, Martha Stroupe, Emma Julia Wallace, and Eleanor White. These
young people did splendid work for churches in which they labored and
they did it at a financial sacrifice because they are interested in our Baptist
program. The chart on page 41 (Training Union Chart No. 1) is a partial
picture of the work they did.
SOME ACHIEVEMENTS IN 1944
In spite of unsettled conditions due to war, the necessary break in work
resulting from a change of personnel, and the poliomyelitis ban on meetings
for the younger people, Training Union work has progressed and some
notable results have been achieved :
1. An Associational Enlargement Campaign was sponsored in the South
Fork Association in April with sixteen churches participating.
2. Thirteen churches were reached in the Caldwell Association in two
weeks of work by summer workers and the State Department.
3. Nineteen churches were reached in a similar way in the Haywood
Association.
Annual of Session 1944 105
4. Seven churches were aided in enlargement efforts in the Liberty, Hay-
wood, Pilot Mountain, Transylvania, and Wilmington Associations.
5. In addition to the above work study courses were conducted by state
field workers in nineteen churches representing sixteen associations.
6. Ten Regional Conventions were held in the spring with a total regis-
tration of 1,964.
7. Twelve hundred and ninety-seven persons registered for the State
Assembly at Ridgecrest and more than 500 North Carolinians attended the
three Southwide Training Union Conferences there. This means that ap-
proximately 1,800 persons were reached by the Training Union meetings at
Ridgecrest.
8. Miss Paschall, Miss Sparks, Mr. Mobley, and Mr. Gibson each served
for two weeks on the faculty at the Southwide Training Union Leadership
Assembly at Ridgecrest during the summer.
9. During the Ridgecrest conferences two hundred and three North Car-
olina boys and girls made the commitment to full-time religious service.
Many of them are now training themselves in our colleges and seminaries.
10. Another phase of the State program promoted by the Department was
the Simultaneous Associational Mass Meetings on November 23, 1943. Fifty-
two associations participated and 5,716 people attended these meetings.
11. Associational officers were brought together in one of two Training
Meetings in the State — one at Tabernacle Church, Raleigh, and the other at
Western Avenue Church, Statesville — to plan for the November 23rd Mass
Meeting. These meetings were under the leadership of the Southwide
Training Union force. Forty-one associations were represented.
12. The chart on page 41 (Training Union Chart No. 1) gives a picture
of the work done in the Enlargement Campaigns, and the chart on page 42
(Training Union Chart No. 2) is a picture of Training Union organizations
in the State as reported through the office in Raleigh. It should be explained
here that a partial loss in units, directors, and churches having Training
Union work is due to the fact that we adopted the policy last year of dis-
carding from our files records of churches from which we have had no
report in three years. It is important, then, that we have at least one
report each year from every church with a Training Union in order that
we may have up-to-date information for the Convention report. Actually
eighty churches that had no training work at all have added Training
Union work since the last Convention report, but many churches have made
no report to us within the past three years and that explains why we must
show a net loss in churches with Training Union work, units, etc.
LOOKING AHEAD
We face the future with faith and enthusiasm. North Carolina churches
on the whole offer a friendly atmosphere for our training program. Our
consecrated and devoted pastors are recognizing in an increasing measure
the need for better-trained church membership and are making use of
the Training Union, the "People's Seminary," to meet the needs of their
people.
There is an urgent need that our training organization take a positive
106 N. C. Baptist State Convention
stand in regard to the sale and use of alcoholic beverages, Sunday amuse-
ments that draw so many of our people away from church, and the whole
matter of juvenile delinquency.
Faced with the prospect of thousands of returning service men, broken in
body and spirit, it is imperative that we revitalize our church program to
meet their needs, challenge them to a greater sphere of service, and make
use of the rich experiences and talents which they will bring to us.
The war and defense centers have made a heavy drain on the personnel
of our Young People's Departments all over the State, but there are many
young people still left in our churches and we should rally them to the
training program in order that there be no gap between Intermediates and
Adults.
There is an ever increasing and urgent need also that we develop a train-
ing program that will furnish leadership for the younger people in our
Training Unions, train teachers and officers for the Sunday School and
other church organizations, and create in the hearts and minds of our church
membership a new sense of responsibility to their church.
SOME GOALS FOR 1945
1. Every association represented at one of the two Training Meetings for
associational officers: Tabernacle Church, Raleigh, February 20; Calvary
Church, Morganton, February 22.
2. Eight thousand present at the 'Simultaneous Associational Training
Union Rallies on April 24.
3. Seventy-five new churches with Training Unions.
4. Sixty thousand Baptists in North Carolina Training Unions.
5. Twenty thousand study course awards for 1945.
6. Fifteen hundred registered at the State Training Union Assembly,
Ridgecrest, June 21-27.
7. Six weeks of associational enlargement work.
IN APPRECIATION
The Training Union Department wishes to express its deepest apprecia-
tion to the hundreds of sympathetic and cooperative pastors, educational
directors, associational missionaries and workers, and local Training Union
officers who have promoted the training program in the State. It is like-
wise grateful to Secretary M. A. Huggins for his unqualified support of the
Department and to Dr. T. L. Holcomb, Mr. J. E. Lambdin, and others of
the Sunday School Board for their generous help in carrying on the work
in North Carolina. We want to thank also the many pastors, teachers, and
others who have assisted in putting on enlargement campaigns and without
whom the program of training could not have been promoted. The faculty
of the Ridgecrest Assembly was made up almost entirely of North Carolina
ministers and religious leaders whose contribution to the Baptist people in
attendance was of inestimable value. They have our gratitude.
Your State Baptist Training Union Department is anxious to serve the
churches of the State and wants to be used to promote a real Christian
training program. We ask your prayers for the success of the work over
the entire State, as well as in your church and association.
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TRAINING UNION CHART NO. 2
Associations
Alexander
Alleghany
Anson
Ashe
Atlantic
Avery
Beulah
Bladen
Blue Ridge
Brier Creek
Brunswick
Brushy Mountain.
Buncombe
Cabarrus
Caldwell
Carolina
Catawba River
Central
Chowan
Columbus
Dock
Eastern
Elkin
Flat River
French Broad
Gaston County
Green River
Haywood
Johnston
Kings Mountain..
Liberty
Little River
Macon County
Mecklenburg
Mitchell
Montgomery
Mount Zion
Neuse
New Found
New South River.
Pee Dee
Piedmont
Pilot Mountain
Raleigh
Randolph
Roanoke
Robeson
Rowan
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Sandy Run
South Fork
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Stanly
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Stony Fork
Surry
Tar River
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Three Forks
Transylvania
Tuckaseigee
Union
West Chowan
West liberty
Western N. C
Wilmington
Yadkin
Yancey
Burnt Swamp
Cherokee
Totals.
Churches
Units
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6
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18
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20
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23
27
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24
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24
6
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11
14
10
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7
7
9
9
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19
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1
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tors
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4
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22
21
16
14
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8
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2
4
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35
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33
18
14
10
28
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7
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26
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7
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14
12
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1
11
1
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26
5
17
5
9
10
7
3
19
1
3
13
2
4
3
23
8
11
10
11
13
11
2
12
22
2
12
8
3
2
2
3
2
6
2
13
2
12
5
3
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5
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6
1
7
2
15
4
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29
19
22
13
17
7
5
5
1
16
2
2
5
41
5
25
13
22
20
10
11
29
4
5
23
5
10
3
34
15
17
10
16
25
15
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16
26
4
14
9
7
7
4
4
3
5
4
21
3
15
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6
6
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13
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3
27
16
20
16
17
12
6
6
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4
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5
24
14
19
17
10
11
22
3
6
25
7
9
3
33
14
16
7
16
19
18
7
17
27
2
13
10
6
7
2
4
2
6
3
22
4
12
10
2
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4
2
2
9
1
5
4
9
3
1
23
13
18
16
10
16
6
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4
16
24
4
14
9
14
13
10
10
22
5
4
19
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9
5
31
12
15
6
18
13
11
7
13
19
3
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7
5
5
4
5
4
6
5
9
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13
7
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4
5
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9
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29
21
19
15
14
7
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27
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20
7
11
11
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19
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6
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11
11
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11
10
6
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27
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Num-
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Units
24
4
5
27
2
25
11
54
13
8
126
83
91
69
72
45
23
15
5
62
5
15
30
157
24
100
48
75
71
46
42
112
15
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99
17
38
16
147
64
70
44
67
81
65
31
68
121
13
59
44
28
23
14
20
13
28
16
78
13
60
3
36
9
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Net Gain
or Loss
in Lnits
705 677 569 I 529 2,914
Loss 1
Gain 1
Loss 5
Gain 2
Gain 10
Loss 1
Gain 5
Loss 5
Loss 21
Loss 10
Loss 3
Loss 5
Loss 9
Loss 32
Gain 13
Loss 5
Loss 9
Loss 3
Loss 13
Gain 4
Same
Loss 23
Same
Loss 5
Gain 3
Loss 20
Loss 9
Gain 43
Gain 5
Loss 15
Loss 20
Loss 6
Gain 2
Loss 21
Loss 1
Loss 1 1
Loss 9
Gain 2
Loss 1
Loss 11
Loss 7
Gain 8
Loss 37
Loss 23
Loss 15
Loss 11
Less 4
Gain 5
Loss 9
Gain 2
Gain 9
Loss 19
Loss 12
Gain 8
Loss 1
Loss 7
Gain 9
Loss 14
Gain 2
Loss 27
Loss 6
Gain 2
Loss 8
Loss 4
Same
Loss 4
Gain 6
Loss 15
Same
Loss 2
Loss 1
Net Loss 14,981
359
Annual of Session 1944 109
103.
3. Division of Student Work
R. T. Howerton, Jr., Secretary
Personnel
Miss Laura Durant began her work as Baptist Student Secretary at the
Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in September, after
a summer of intensive Bible study at one of the nation's leading theological
seminaries. Miss Durant is exceptionally qualified for her work. She has
unlimited enthusiasm. Her consecration to the cause of Christ is sincere
and contagious, and her dealings with students are firm and challenging.
Already she has won the loyalty of hundreds of students. The B.S.U. coun-
cil is enthusiastic in their praise of their new leader.
The loss the student division sustained when Mrs. John E. Lawrence left
Greensboro to become assistant to Dr. Broadus Jones of the First Baptist
Church, Raleigh, was a great one. The three and one-half years she in-
vested in students' lives were years of the highest Christian service. Seed
she has sown will continue to bear fruit.
Another inestimable loss occurred when Miss Cleo Mitchell decided to
become Mrs. R. H. Edwin Espy. Her husband is the national Y. M. and
Y. W. C. A. secretary. Mrs. Espy invested many years as student secretary
at Woman's College where her maiden name became synonymous with the
best in student work. Her year of teaching and student work at Meredith
was exceptionally fruitful. No one has yet been secured to direct student
work at Meredith, although the council is carrying on most effectively.
Miss Marjorie Toole, graduate of Woman's Missionary Training School
in Louisville, succeeded the highly successful Miss Louise Green as student
secretary at Appalachian State Teacher's College. Miss Toole, like Miss
Durant, has already won the hearts of countless students of the campus at
Boone and is leading the students in a program of dynamic Christian living.
At East Carolina Teacher's College Miss Mary Lee Ernest continues her
sympathetic and thorough leadership. The longer she remains at Green-
ville, the more students and town folk admire and love her — and they began
on a large scale when she first went there. The council is staffed with some
of the best leaders in college. The student center is constantly alive with
business meetings, worship services, private conferences and informal suppers.
In November Miss Judith Joyner will take up her duties as part-time
student secretary at the University of North Carolina. She will work in
close connection with the Baptist Church of Chapel Hill and its pastor, Dr.
Kelley Barnett. Miss Joyner has studied at the Training School in Louis-
ville and last summer served as Educational Director of the First Baptist
Church of Statesville. She faces her task with the deepest conviction that
the student's greatest need is a vital relationship with Christ.
Mr. Harold Townsend, divinity student at Duke University, continues
his fine leadership of Baptist students on his campus. There as at Chapel
Hill, also, the program is seriously hindered by the rapid turnover of men
in the armed services' tightly scheduled training program.
In the office of the student division Miss Adelaide Charles has completed
a year of service as secretary. Because of her deep interest in the work
110 N. C. Baptist State Convention
and her friendliness toward students her helpful influence is felt on all of
the campuses by students who write or come to her for aid.
ACHIEVEMENTS DURING 1943-44
1. On. the Campuses
There are at present 22 active Baptist Student Unions. Please notice the
B.S.U. Directory Chart on page. 46.
What does the Baptist Student Union seek to accomplish on its campus?
The skeleton of an answer can be found by examining the Calendar of
Events followed out last year, at East Carolina Teachers' College, for
example.
REGULAR ACTIVITIES
Sunday School Classes, Training Unions, Worship Services on Sundays.
Bible Study Group each Friday afternoon at Student Center. "Pause for
Power," a prayer meeting, each Thursday. Fellowship Hour, each Satur-
day night. Bag Suppers, Sunday nights at Student Center. B.S.U. Council
Meeting, each Monday night. Y.W.A. once every month.
SPECIAL EVENTS
September 25, 26 — Pre-School Planning Retreat.
September 28-October 1 — Open House at Student Center.
September 28-October 1 — Enlistment Campaign.
October 4 — Meeting of Greater B.S.U. Council.
October 4-8 — The Baptist Student Magazine Campaign.
October 10 — Student Join-the-Church-Day.
October 14 — General Y.W.A. Meeting.
October 15-18 — Visit to campus by Miss Katherine Abee and missionary,
for study and training in missions.
October 18-23— Christian Stewardship for Students Drive.
October 19-21 — B.S.U. participates in campus-wide religious emphasis
week.
October 22-24 — Students attend annual B.S.U. Convention in Winston-
Salem.
October 25 — Baptist Training Union Study Course.
November 1 — Meeting of Greater B.S.U. Council.
November 13 — Party for all Baptist students.
November 18 — B.S.U. play at college vespers.
November 29-December 3 — Week of Prayer for Foreign Missions.
December 26 — Student Night at Christmas, observed at home.
January 5-8 — Enlistment of new Baptist students, new quarter.
January 9-16 — Annual "Week of Deeper Spiritual Thinking," conferences
and preaching by Rev. Nathan Broks. "Student Evangelistic Week"
observed simultaneously.
February 7-11 — Christian Home Week.
March 6-10 — Home Mission Emphasis Week.
April 3 — Canvass of students for summer volunteer work.
April 15 — Newly elected council attends training retreat at Wake Forest.
April 29 — Installation Service and Party for new council.
May 5 — Entertainment for High School Seniors and College Seniors'.
Annual of Session 1944 111
Each campus B.S.U. council plans a similar program for the college year.
While some of them are not as full as the above program, all B.S.U's strive
for the highest goals of campus Christian living.
The service Baptist Student Union work renders the denomination in
recruiting and training students for life-time Christian work is invaluable.
There are on file in the Raleigh Student Office the Christian Life Service
Commitment cards of thirty-three young men and women who have definitely
consecrated their lives to full-time Christian service. This does not include
all. There are, of course, hundreds of others who were not on hand to
register when these cards were distributed at Ridgecrest in June of 1944.
The ministers, missionaries, educational directors, Bible teachers of tomor-
row are in our colleges today. Baptist Student Unions offer them a match-
less opportunity to develop their best for the highest service. Hundreds
of them are taking advantage of it.
For the figures on the enlistment of Baptist students in at least one
religious activity at college, notice the Baptist Student Union Chart No. 2.
2. In the Statewide Program
Student Night at Christmas, now a traditional observance among Southern
Baptists, was more widely practiced than ever before in North Carolina.
Numerous reports of the helpful programs in which students at home from
college participated were mailed to the student office.
The January Presidents' Planning Conference was held in the First Baptist
Church of Durham. The church people cordiall}' opened their homes to the
students. Thirty-five attended the meetings, including the state officers and
student secretaries. Techniques of student work and plans for the spring
were made.
The Annual Spring Retreats were held in April, the Eastern at Wake For-
est on one week-end, with one hundred twenty-five new council members at-
tending, and the Western at Mars Hill, with eighty-five attending. Officers
were trained in their duties, following up training they had received on the
campuses. There was a splendid spirit at both meetings and the hospitality
of both college families was sincerely appreciated.
The Annual All-Southern Baptist Student Conference at Ridgecrest was
held in June. North Carolinians were the most numerous in attendance on
a percentage basis. On a numerical basis we were second only to Texas,
which in all fairness should be considered a territory, not a state. North
Carolina registered one hundred and thirty-five, Texas about one hundred
ninety. The grand total was 1,415, a figure that attests the spiritual enthu-
siasm and faith of youth in a day when faith, hope and love are difficult to
possess.
The State Officers are listed below. They are a gifted, courageous and
capable group, and are supplying a dynamic leadership on their campuses
and over the state.
President — Calvin Knight (Wake Forest).
Enlistment Vice-President — Una Lee Richardson (A. S. T. C).
Social Vice-President — Elizabeth Shelton (Meredith).
Devotional Vice-President — Jane Carroll (W. C. U. N. C).
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Baptist Student Union Chart No. 2
(Enlistment of Baptist students in at least one religious organization, 1943-44.)
College
Total
Baptists
Number
Enlisted
Percent
Enlisted
A.S.T.C
Baptist Hospital
Campbell
Duke
145
70
235
375
337
130
63
640
314
45
241
60
469
110
70
235
75
174
120
640
279
45
150
60
130
75%
100%
100%
25%
E.C.T.C
Gardner-Webb
Lenoir-Rhyne
52%
92%
75%
Mars Hill
Meredith
100%
85%
Pembroke
Wake Forest
Wingate
W.C.U.N.C
100%
62%
100%
28%
Total
3,124
2,088
63^%
Secretary-Treasurer — Florence Gordon (W. C. U. N. C).
Baptist Student Magazine Promoter- — Pfc. Jim Satterwhite (Bowman Gray
Medical School).
Music Director — Elizabeth White (Atlantic Christian).
Summer Christian Youth Weeks were sponsored by the student division.
For the first time the leaders were all young people of college age. Six
churches came in on the plan. The leaders were Mr. Ralph Langley (Baylor
University), the evening preacher; Mr. Bruce Mclver (Mars Hill College),
the morning preacher; Miss Elizabeht Shelton (Meredith College), recreation
and morning worship leader; Miss Florence Gordon (W. C. U. N. C),
evening worship leader. All of the leaders visited in the afternoon in the
interest of winning young people to Christ and strengthening their church
loyalty. In spite of the polio bans the youth weeks were successful in every
case. They were held in the following churches : First, Oxford, N. C, Rev.
M. L. Bannister; First, Statesville, Rev. Harry Gamble; First, Thomasville,
Dr. W. K. McGee; First, Dunn, Rev. Lewis Morgan; Wallace Baptist
Church, Rev. J. N. Evans ; First, Mount Airy, Dr. R. K. Redwine. Next
summer there will be more than one team and more than six weeks of work.
First Magnitude, a standard of rigid requirements, the attainment of which
denotes genuine merit, was reached by Meredith College and Wingate Col-
lege. Mars Hill, E. C. T. C. and Campbell Colleges almost reached the
goal. This fall a new standard even more difficult to attain has been sent
out over the South. Already many of our campuses have adopted it as
their goal and no doubt the greater challenge will bring forth a greater effort.
104.
B. Christian Education in the Colleges
We record here brief reports from the colleges, and in this connection we
call attention to the report of the Council on Christian Education. It is very
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gratifying to observe that the enrollment at Meredith College is larger than
ever before, and President Kitchin of Wake Forest reports the largest fresh-
man class in the history of the college, and all this in spite of the situation
existing because of war. The reports from the colleges, together with some
statistical data, follow. If one desires to discover the main facts about our
educational institutions he can find them here. The auditor's detailed reports
of the colleges are on file in the office of the General Secretary in Raleigh.
105.
(a) CAMPBELL COLLEGE
B. F. McLeod, President of Board of Trustees
L. H. Campbell, President
In 1943-44 Campbell's enrollment of 316 probably reached its wartime low.
Up to the present this year the over-all registration is 333. Lack of dormitory
space for girls caused many applicants to be turned away. The last checkup
since the opening revealed that there were one hundred forty-one girls crowded
into fifty-five available rooms, some of which are located off the girls' section
of the campus.
It is a source of satisfaction now to realize that the institution could so
adjust itself to the wartime emergency that without aid of government sub-
sidies or contracts no operating deficit was incurred. Furthermore, in spite
of increased cost of living expenses, student charges have remained approxi-
mately constant throughout.
As with most other institutions rather large inroads have been made upon
faculty personnel during the past two years. In spite of the serious teacher
shortage everywhere, the institution is fortunate this year in securing the fol-
lowing new members for the position designated : R. L. Whipple, formerly
teacher and counselor at Georgia Military Academy, Vice-President ; G. A.
Tripp, previously Principal of Long Creek Grady High School, social science;
J. W. Wray, from State College faculty, head of mathematics department and
physics ; Mrs. G. T. Proffit, formerly from Dunn High School, head of natural
science department ; Lucile Nelson, former head of voice department of Wes-
leyan College, voice ; Minnie Drake Townsend, from Lander College, business
education: H. M. Baker, natural science; Lillian Maxfield, from Brevard Col-
lege, librarian.
By unanimous vote the Board of Trustees committed the institution to an
effort to raise as a minimum $300,000 for improvement and expansion. In
addition to the renovation of some of the older buildings, a primary need is
for additional dormitory space to house approximately one hundred fifty addi-
tional students. Other urgent building needs include an infirmary, a modern
physical education building, a vocational education laboratory, and an addition
to the Carrie Rich Library. Already good progress has been made in com-
munities near the college.
While seeking the support of all friends of Christian Education Campbell
College desires to work cooperatively with all other agencies of our Baptist
State Convention. Campbell College has been founded and fostered to serve
God and man. Opportunity for service today and tomorrow seems limited
only by her physical limitations to meet the expanding needs of a new world
order. »
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106.
(b) GARDNER- WEBB COLLEGE
P. L. Elliott, President
(Gardner-Webb is not owned and operated by the Convention.)
The work at Gardner-Webb is very gratifying. We have an increase in
students of 30%. Many more would have been here if we had had the room
for them. The freshman class is of a higher order than we usually get. The
spirit on the campus is as fine as I have ever seen on any campus.
Our enlargement campaign is progressing nicely. We have now approxi-
mately $235,000.00 in cash or its equivalent. We shall begin the construction
of the thirteen new buildings which will constitute our plant as soon after the
war as is practical. We are not asking for donations primarily. Anyone who
has money he wishes to invest, we cordially invite him to come see what we
are doing and what we plan to do ; if this appeals to him as a real investment,
we shall be glad for him to make it.
We covet the prayers and good wishes of the Baptist State Convention.
We should like to be thought of as worthy associates in the field of Christian
education. We should like to be a vital part of a great Baptist education
program. We shall not be a suppliant for recognition; we shall try to make
ourselves worthy of the recognition that we covet; and we shall do it in the
faith that when we have made ourselves worthy, the Convention will think
and act toward us as she does toward all her vital children.
107.
(c) MARS HILL COLLEGE
E. F. W r atson, President of Board of Trustees
Hoyt Blackwell, President
The eighty-ninth session of Mars Hill College began auspiciously. The
faculty is consecrated, efficient, and loyal. The enrollment to date is 709 regu-
lar college students and 20 special students. In this number there are 25 young
ministers and two children of missionaries. It is gratifying to report that
696 of the students enrolled are church members. During the week of October
9 Dr. Ralph Herring, of Winston-Salem led us in our annual fall revival.
•Dr. Herring's personal consecration, his gospel messages, and the Christian
atmosphere of the community were the means of leading hundreds to confess
their sins and reaffirm their faith in Christ. Thirteen made a profession of
faith in Chirst and were received as candidates for baptism. This ordinance
was administered on Sunday, October 15, and all of the thirteen are now
members in full fellowship of the Mars Hill Baptist Church.
The second term of the summer school as an integral part of the regular
schedule of the college was gratifying. The faculty were loyal and aggressive
Christians and the 223 students enrolled were cooperative. For the second
year in succession the budget was paid in full without drawing upon the col-
lege treasury.
For the calendar year 1943, the Convention made an appropriation of $15,000
to Mars Hill College for current support. Accordingly, the college is even
more keenly aware of its obligation to the Convention and of its responsibility
in promoting every interest of the Kingdom of God.
Mars Hill College has entered the tenth year of its present enlargement
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and endowment program. Much has been achieved, but the larger and more
glorious tasks are ahead of us. This is evidenced by the fact that more than
100 young women and approximately 25 young men were turned away last
September because of a lack of dormitory rooms. The college looks, there-
fore, to a multitude of friends for a place in their prayers and for gifts of
money and other property.
The Lord has been good to Mars Hill from the date of its founding in
1856. There have always been friends ready to respond when its needs have
been made known.
108.
(d) MEREDITH COLLEGE
W. H. Weatherspoon, President Board of Trustees
Carlyle Campbell, President
The total enrollment for 1943-44, including 21 new registrations for the
1943 summer session, was 518. Students were enrolled from four foreign
countries, sixteen states, and seventy counties in North Carolina. The aca-
demic classification of the 476 regular college students shows 183 freshmen,
94 sophomores, 95 juniors, and 104 seniors. Forty-eight students entered, with
advanced standing, from other colleges. At the beginning of the year 467
students indicated the following denominational affiliation : 331 Baptists, 67
Methodists, 22 Presbyterians, 17 members of no church, 10 Christians, 20
members of other church groups.
The auditor's report on operations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944,
shows an income of $291,668.29, and expenditures amounting to $280,078.88.
From the State Baptist Convention $22,000 was received for current support.
All student accounts receivable had been paid in cash before the 'end of the
year.
A factual summary or evaluation of the year's activities is impossible in a
brief report; but, particularly in view of circumstances, College officials are
of the opinion that it was a year of substantial achievement and development.
Special mention should be made of Religious Focus Week, held February
20-25, 1944, during which time we had the full, splendid services of twelve
outstanding leaders in our Southern Baptist work. From messages, confer-
ences, and personal association with them the spiritual life of the College was
greatly stimulated. To the Sunday School Board we express our gratitude
for this enriching experience, and also for the assurance that a similar pro-
gram will be held here in 1944-45.
The year 1944-45 has begun most auspiciously. We have the largest en-
rollment in the history of Meredith College. By July 17, every dormitory
room had been reserved, later admissions being possible only as withdrawals
occurred. This registration for the first semester, as of October 21, shows a
total of 593 students. They represent three foreign countries, fourteen states,
and seventy-five counties in North Carolina. Because of resignations, leaves
of absence, and necessary additions to take care of the increased enrollment,
a number of new appointments in the staff had to be made ; these new in-
structors and officers are giving a good account of themselves.
The confidence and interest of North Carolina Baptists in Meredith Col-
lege, as indicated by their generous support of our $565,000 Expansion Pro-
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gram, is most stimulating and prophetic. Present indications suggest that we
shall greatly exceed the goal set up, and that a period of significant develop-
ment is ahead. The responsive attitude of Meredith officials is revealed by
this unanimous expression of the faculty and staff at a recent meeting : "We
are servants of North Carolina Baptists, who have entrusted to our care the
Christian nurture of nearly six hundred young women. They constitute our
supreme opportunity and sacred obligation."
109.
(e) WAKE FOREST COLLEGE
John A. Oates, President Board of Trustees
Thurman D. Kitchin, President
The session of 1944-1945 marks the return of Wake Forest College to the
semester system and the presence of a purely civilian student body.
The following items are of interest to the Convention :
I. A year ago I had to report that we had the smallest enrollment in 33
years, only 448 students not counting those registered in the medical school.
I thought 1944-45 would be an even worse year for student enrollment.
I was mistaken. Today we have 560 students on our campus ; 10 students in
the Duke- Wake Forest Law School in Durham, and 191 students in our medi-
cal school in Winston-Salem, making a total of 761. An encouraging part of
this is that of this number 313 are freshmen, making the largest freshman class
in Wake Forest's history.
However, I must qualify these encouraging statements with the sober re-
minder that the great majority of these freshmen are 16 or 17 years old, and
the military situation will not allow them to remain in college long.
II. Twenty-six members of our faculty and approximately 2800 Wake
Forest Alumni are in the Armed Forces.
III. The exterior of our Chapel is now complete and it is hoped that the
entire building can be finished in another year.
The Religion and Music Building, completed more than a year ago, was
given its first civilian use by the Preachers' School last June. It is now in
full use by the departments of Religion and Music, and is thoroughly adapted
to the purposes for which it was planned.
IV. The temporary arrangement to conduct our Law School in connection
with the Duke University Law School has been satisfactory, but it is hoped
that our Law School may be brought back to the Wake Forest campus by the
time the new session opens next September.
V. Since the last meeting of the Convention, we have awarded the first
M.D. degree ever given by this College, and within the past 12 months 69
such degrees have been conferred.
VI. It is worthy of note that when the members of the first graduating class
form the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College took the
examination before the Board of Medical Examiners of North Carolina three
of the four top places went to members of this first graduating class.
VII. A report to this body would be incomplete without mentioning the
unusually fine spirit on our campus. Although our students are as a group
younger than in former years, they have a sense of propriety and a seriousness
of purpose that must be accounted for at least in part by the grave aspect of
world conditions.
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(f) WINGATE JUNIOR COLLEGE
H. K. Helms, Chairman Board of Trostees
C. C. Burris, President
Since 1896 the little town of Wingate has been favored in having an insti-
tution of learning here. Wingate High School was organized in 1896 and
opened its doors that year. Professor M. B. Dry was the principal during
those early years. The Baptist institution was run in connection with the state
schools until 1917. Union County built a public school building at Wingate
and the Baptist institution was then on its own. In 1923 it was advanced to
the standing of a junior college and the ownership was turned over to the
Baptist State Convention. In 1930, the ownership was returned to its former
owners, Union, Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, and Pee Dee Associations. Three
other associations have since become affiliated with the work in full owner-
ship and management. These associations are the Anson and Stanly in North
Carolina and Chesterfield in South Carolina. The Trustees are appointed by
these cooperating associations. At a recent meeting of the Montgomery As-
sociation, a motion was unanimously passed making the Montgomery Associa-
tion affiliated with the group mentioned above. Rev. C. B. Trammel of Troy,
was appointed as a Trustee of the College for the next three years. Due to
the emergency the curriculum has been broadened and enlarged by the intro-
duction of a larger Physical Education program and the addition of new
Science courses. Wingate College is now fully accredited by .the State Edu-
cation Department of North Carolina and the American Association of Col-
leges. It cooperates fully with the armed forces in the present emergency.
The administration was indeed fortunate in securing a complete faculty,
although teachers have entered many other fields of activity. We believe we
have the best balanced faculty for the incoming year that we have had. Every
teacher is fully prepared and equipped for teaching in his or her department.
Late in the fall of 1943, a financial program was launched with three
objectives :
First : To pay the indebtedness which has been carried for many years.
This objective has been reached and the debt was paid in its entirety on July
IS, 1944. The College is now ready to move on toward the second objective.
Second : To renovate and modernize the present plant. This is being done
as the funds come in and it is hoped by the summer of 1945, that the plant
will be completely modernized.
Third : To launch a building program consisting of the following buildings :
A boys' dormitory which will house about one hundred men; a small library
that will hold about ten thousand volumes with reading rooms and offices, and
a dining room with a capacity of two hundred students together with a kitchen
and other equipment. It is also planned to build a Home Economics building
on the same general location where the dining room is to be placed. These
are the immediate needs to which the College has set itself.
The College is especially fortunate in having two splendid churches in
sight of the campus. The Methodist Church is just across town and is attended
by many of our students. The local Baptist Church joins our campus. Rev.
W. C. Link is pastor of the Baptist Church and we consider him one of the
outstanding pastors of the state. He is loved by both students and faculty.
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The enrollment for 1944-45 is somewhat larger than it has been for some
years and we have students not only from North Carolina, but from several
states, including Cuba. As stated above, the entire indebtedness has been paid
and the College is living within its income. Due to the increase in contribu-
tions from the Baptist State Convention and from the churches in the Associa-
tions which have been supporting the school through the years, we feel that
Wingate is now at the "dawn of a new day" and we ask for your earnest
prayers and support. »
112.
VIII. BENEVOLENCE
Under the present arrangement we think of the orphanage, hospital, and
aged ministers' relief when the work "benevolence" is mentioned. We should
not think of the Ministers' Retirement Plan as benevolence. However, we in-
clude a statement here concerning it. because it is closely akin to relief and
both are administered by the Relief and Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention.
A. RELIEF AND ANNUITY
1. Relief
We are glad to print here for the information of the Convention, and for
future reference, facts about relief and annuity obtained from the report of the
Relief and Annuity Board. We call attention to the fact that the Relief and
Annuity Board has many different funds and plans, and that beneficiaries in
North Carolina will receive during 1944 about $70,000.
(a) Relief
Benefits paid to pastors and widows during the year 1943 amounted to
11,668.35.
(b) Retirement Plans
1. The Baptist Boards' Employees Retirement Plan at present is supply-
ng an annuity for Miss Bessie Morgan, who is receiving $500 a year.
2. In the Ministers' Retirement Plan we have thirty receiving annuities—
ige, disability and widows— the total amount being $8,241.28.
113.
2. Orphanage
Zeno Wall, President of Board of Trustees
I. G. Greer, General Superintendent
In our enthusiasm to win the war, in our anxiety about our boys who are
it the front giving their last full measure of devotion we should not overlook
he things for which we are fighting. We must win the war but in winning
t let us continue to make men and women who will be worthy and capable
ft rebuilding a shocked world and carrying on the work of the Kingdom of
}od. Each day more than six hundred children must depend upon friends
)f the Baptist Orphanage of North Carolina for support. These friends have
lot failed in the past, and are not going to fail now.
1943 saw many changes in the Orphanage, both in personnel and the
ihysical plants. Our rise in income has enabled us to meet the sharp in-
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crease in operating costs. Our most difficult task has been the maintenance
of a capable staff, against the competition of other types of work where
hours are shorter and cash compensations larger. During this year because
of the increasing number of small children it has been necessary to employ
more colored help than ever before.
The Social Service Department is now under the direction of Mrs. Louise
L. Blake. Miss Hattie Edwards served in this capacity for many years
and is known and loved by almost every Baptist in North Carolina. Her
faithful years of service has and will continue to have its imprint upon the
lives of hundreds of men and \vomen who will remember her as one who
went about doing good. She plans now to go to her home at Mars Hill
where she will still find a place of service. We have cared for in the past
year 698 children in our two homes, twenty-three in boarding homes, and
sixty through Mother's Aid in their own homes. In addition to this, other
adjustments have been made where otherwise the homes might have gone to
pieces.
Perhaps in one year there has never been as much improvement in the
physical plants. At both Mills Home and Kennedy Home a continual pro-
gram of cottage renovation has gone on. Better living conditions add much
to the morale of any group, and certainly it is readily manifest in a group
of children living together.
As a result of good food, regular hours and the cooperation of workers
and children, the health of our children is far above that of the outside
population. The physical education program goes on the year around with
trained workers in charge. Attendance in school during the past year reached
about ninety-nine per cent. The Mills Home school is conducted on the
Orphanage campus as a unit of the Thomasville City Schools and the Ken-
nedy Home children attend the LaGrange school, traveling by county busses.
Both homes have their own churches with a full time pastor living on
each campus. A graded Sunday school, BTU and MMU help in rounding
out the lives of our boys and girls.
Charity and Children is published each week at Mills Home and covers the
activities of the Orphanage. A profitable commercial printing shop is also
maintained and this adds to the training available for the boys.
On account of the increased cost of living the monthly contributions and
the Thanksgiving offering should be larger this year than they have ever
aeen before, if we are to continue in the one great purpose of guiding upset
boys and girls.
In the name of Christ whose love for the orphan child was supreme and
as an opportunity for enriching our own lives let us rededicate ourselves
to the task of supporting and training those committed to our care.
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3. Hospital
J. S. Lynch, President of Board of Trustees
Smith Hagaman, Superintendent
General
The Board of Trustees of your hospital is again happy to make a report
►hat they believe reflects a great step forward in the work of the Kingdom.
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The Board does not claim credit for the great work your institution has
done during this year, but gives that credit to the real cooperation of the
pastors, of the public, to the churches and their workers, and most of all to
the Divine Providence in whose Name our work is done and by whose grace
we are permitted to carry on. The realization of the tremendous need of the
hospital's service has been a stimulus during this war handicapped year to
make us utilize the facilities of our institution to the utmost advantage. We
also owe a debt of gratitude to the employees of the hospital who have loyally
carried on its work under the worst labor and supplies handicap of the hos-
pital's history.
Professional and Educational
We would like to call attention to the fact that your hospital has the full
approval and recognition as an A-l hospital by all the standardizing and
rating agencies of this country. In many of our fields of endeavor we are
one of a few hospitals so approved. Again we recognize the place the
Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College has had in rais-
ing the caliber of our service to such excellence. Those students in the
various schools conducted by the hospital itself now number over two hun-
dred. We give thanks that we are able to carry out the two great services
of Christ, teaching and healing. In the development of the professional ex-
cellence and in the responsibilities of the teaching program, your Board has
not lost sight of the duty of this institution to develop as an outstanding
Christian center. The expressions of our patients assure us that despite the
hospital's growth it has not outgrown the influence of Christ.
Charity Service
The in-patient load reached the hospital's capacity during the past twelve
months. We are now averaging over ninety-five per cent occupancy at all
times. This year we will have over 86,000 patients days of service. Of this
number, between 29,000 and 30,000 days will be free days provided for pa-
tients unable to pay anything toward their hospital stay. In addition, there
will be over 10,000 part-pay days of care given to those unable to pay the
full charges of the hospital. The free and part-pay groups also will not
pay a physician's or surgeon's fee. This is another sharp increase in the
total of charity work done as we were able to do only slightly over 26,000
free days of care during 1943. The generous answer to our Mother's Day
appeal has been the controlling factor in this increase of charity work. The
Board again gives its pledge that every penny contributed for the purpose
of charity work will be spent only for the purpose for which it was given.
In this connection, it is pertinent to point out that the free work done for
the pastors and missionaries is not done with Mother's Day money and is
not considered charity. The cost of this work this year will amount to
slightly over $10,000.00 and this cost will be borne from income of the hos-
pital other than the Mother's Day contributions. .We are proud that we
can carry a program whereby complete hospitalization is given to every
minister, regardless of denomination, that is admitted to the hospital in a
ward bed. Those ministers, missionaries, and ministerial students who de-
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sire a private room are charged only the differential between the ward and
private room accommodations. Families of this group are given a flat fifty
per cent on their total charges.
As we stated above, the great program of charity service carried on by
the Baptist Hospital is made possible by the generous support given the
hospital on Mother's Day. This year's contributions to the Mother's Day
program will total about $93,000.00. This is a large increase over the dona-
tions of any previous year. Last year the hospital received $72,584.08. At
the State Convention in November of last year it was decided that all dona-
tions above $75,000.00 would be used by the convention toward the retire-
ment of the debt of the convention made in the interest of the last building
program of the hospital. To date $92,409.65 has been received, of which
$17,409.65 has been forwarded to Raleigh for debt retirement purposes. The
total free work this year will cost the hospital over $200,000.00. $75,000.00 of
this will come from Mother's Day, and the remaining $125,000.00 will come
from the Duke Endowment and other charitable agencies. It is realized that
we are now in a period of abnormal prosperity, and that the contributions
of outside individuals and agencies will not be maintained when economic
conditions are not so prosperous. However, it is our hope that the hospital
will be able to always add an additional dollar to every Mother's Day dollar
received so that our great charity program will not have to be curtailed.
Out-Patient Department
We are happy to announce that the field of usefulness of the hospital
will be more than doubled in the near future through the construction of a
very large Out-Patient Building for the diagnostic examination of around
40,000 patients a year. This addition to our hospital plant has been made
possible through a donation of a wealthy New York lady and through a
grant of $20,000.00 made to this project by the Duke Endowment. The single
greatest need in medical care today is such a diagnostic center that will
give the local doctors over the State a place of higher resort to which the
difficult cases can go for diagnosis. These local hospitals and doctors over
the State for economic reasons cannot have the vast investment in laboratory,
X-Ray, and other diagnostic equipment, nor the highly trained and highly
paid technicians required in the use of it. In the Out-Patient Department
here at the Baptist Hospital nationally known specialists have use of this
costly equipment and personnel in their exhaustible efforts in behalf of every
person sent to the Out-Patient Department for diagnosis.
This greatly enlarged Out-Patient Department will be one of the largest
in the nation dedicated to those unable to pay a doctor's fee. It is going to
cost a considerable sum to operate, in fact, it is anticipated that its annual
cost will exceed its income by $25,000.00. The only charges are a $1.00 regis-
tration fee and $.50 return visit fee plus reduced charges for X-Ray work.
No charge is made for the doctors and in many instances the cost to the
hospital for the laboratory work alone required on a particular patient is
many times in excess of the nominal fee collected. After its completion, no
sick person then need ever suffer because it cannot be determined what is caus-
ing the sickness. A full report will be furnished the family doctor of each
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out-patient showing what diagnosis was made and what treatments are sug-
gested. If space is not available to admit the patient into the Baptist Hos-
pital, this report will enable patients to receive treatment from their local
doctors when they return home.
Financial
In our report last year we were able to state that the hospital had wiped
out its current indebtedness and was operating within its budget. Despite
our increase in charity work we are able to repeat that same statement this
year. It is hoped that such a report can be given again next year although
we must admit that some anxiety is felt due to the rather large increase in
prices of supplies and labor. The hospital has been forced to bid against
local defense industries for non-professional personnel, and this has in turn
enforced an upward revision of the wage scale until the wage rate is now
approximately one hundred per cent more in each non-professional job than
it was three years ago. A similar picture, though not quite as dark, is evi-
denced in the purchase of supplies. Your hospital has felt this much more
than the other hospitals of North Carolina since the charity load of the
Baptist Hospital has increased approximately one hundred per cent during
the same period while the charity load of the other hospitals in the State
has decreased. The Duke Endowment recently announced that the charity
work in other hospitals of the State was approximately only forty per cent
of what it was four years ago. The dual increase of cost and of charity
work done has made the hospital officials doubly conscious of expenditures
in each department of the hospital.
In our capital fund the hospital has a $60,000.00 obligation still remaining
from its 1940 expansion program. In addition, we have the new nurses'
home under construction, and it is expected that the hospital will owe be-
tween $70,000.00 and $80,000.00 more when this unit is completed. This
building and its equipment is financed by authority of the convention to
borrow up to $110,000.00. Arrangements to borrow this money were perfected
with the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company as directed by resolution of
the trustees of the North Carolina Baptist Hospital. Funds received from
the government through the nurses' training program are being applied
against this construction cost. Approximately ninety-seven per cent of the
students enrolled in the School of Nursing have voluntarily joined the Nurs-
ing Cadet Corps. It is hoped that the hospital will be able to bring the
indebtedness on the nurses' home down to about $70,000.00. Many of our
newly graduated nurses are now in Army hospitals in the United States and
abroad. A recent communication from one of these girls serving in the
South Pacific emphasizes that a victory for Christ may be won as well as a
victory over the enemy. The tragic need, both medically and spiritually, has
so impressed her that she would like to return to the same field when the
war is over. It is our firm belief that all of our girls are utilizing their
Christian training as well as their professional training in their work of
mercy at the battle front.
126 N. C. Baptist State Convention
Expansion Program
During the past twelve months much study has been given to the plans
for expansion of the hospital. Realizing that the expansion could not be
accomplished in one stroke, it was decided to develop an overall plan that
could be developed by steps taken as resources were made available. A firm
of architects, specializing in hospital architecture, was employed to facilitate
this study. The results of the study showed that a minimum of six hundred
beds was needed if even a justifiable portion of the hospital's requirements
for bed space were to be met. Our records show that no less than seven
hundred pastors have communicated with the hospital by letter, by visit, or
by telephone in the interest of getting patients to the hospital. We are now
running behind to the extent of almost two months in the admission of pay
patients, and almost one month in the admission of free patients to the hos-
pital. Of course, the Board of Trustees realizes that it cannot be expected
to take care of all the demands for bed space that are made upon it. This
demand is ever increasing as the hospital becomes more universally known
because of the outstanding and unusual services rendered by reason of its
vast facilities. Neither does the hospital have any desire to expand beyond
the ability of its resources for financing the current cost. On the other hand,
as a medical center it does have the responsibility to utilize to the fullest
extent the talents of the trained specialists available here for the care of
patients suffering from those conditions which the local hospitals over the
State cannot serve. The increased program of hospital building throughout
the State will more and more come to take care of the routine hospital cases,
but these local hospitals will never be able to render a service to the difficult
cases requiring specialized study, surgery and treatment. Through the co-
operation of the medical school, we have an accumulation of specialists under
one roof that only a teaching center can attract. We know that the demand
will be far in excess of six hundred beds, but we are setting that as our
goal with the knowledge that many times that number of beds are needed
for the difficult type of work which is performed here.
We have taken our first expansion step in securing the funds and prior-
ities for the construction of the large Out-Patient Building. Our next step,
and one that must be taken immediately, is the erection of the large south
wing which will add 140 beds and provide the kitchens, laundry and storage
space for the final wing which will give us the six hundred beds. The estimated
cost of the south wing is $800,000.00. If this is made possible, a sizable
portion will have to come from the Baptists of North Carolina who own
and control the hospital. We anticipate sizable help from friends of the
hospital in Winston-Salem and vicinity and from the Duke Endowment, but
North Carolina Baptists must take the lead in the culmination of this greatly
needed expansion. Our hope is that the urgent need for additional space
will be recognized by the many pastors who have occasion to visit the hos-
pital and who have seen the difficulty under which we are placed in trying
to provide beds for the real emergency cases. We know that once this need
is impressed, that the will of our great denomination will be to provide in-
creased space so that we may render increased service.
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Recommendations
The expansion program outlined above is necessary if the hospital is to
meet even a part of its responsibilities. The new south wing will call for
an outlay of $800,000.00 plus the annual interest charge on the portion that
is borrowed. We believe that some portion of this will be forthcoming from
the friends of the hospital who have thus far been so generous toward us
in our construction programs. However, we remain dependent upon the con-
vention from which our help must come.
It is recommended that the convention maintain its desire to stay out of
debt. Instead of the convention undergoing further debt, it is recommended
that the Baptist Hospital, as a going concern, be allowed to borrow up to
$600,000.00 in order to complete its program for the south wing. In order
that the hospital may retire this indebtedness and the interest over a ten-
year period, it is recommended that the hospital be assured of 8 per cent
of the Cooperative Program receipts for this ten-year period, and that it
become the duty of the hospital to secure from private sources the additional
expense of this bond issue in excess of the 8 per cent receipts from the Co-
operative Program, and that the hospital have the further duty of raising
from private sources the remaining $200,000.00 of the south wing cost and
the $130,000.00 for the present indebtedness.
Your Board of Trustees, hospital personnel, nurses and medical staff
again reaffirm their obligation of Christian service to the sick and afflicted.
We continue to give powerful thanks to the support of our brothers in the
denomination through whose diligent support we are allowed to serve those
suffering thousands who lay their troubles at your hospital's door.
115.
IX. COOPERATIVE PROGRAM
We need to be reminded of the following facts :
The total income of the Convention this year for rhissions, education and
benevolence will be approximately $1,600,000. Of this amount $300,000 will
be for the Orphanage, which is not included in the Cooperative Program.
Of the remaining $1,300,000 about $725,000 will be for the Undesignated Co-
operative Program. In other words, apart from the Orphanage, designations
will amount to almost as much as the undesignated funds. However, we
wish to emphasize the point that in 1945 the Hundred Thousand Club will
not be needed, and the same may be said of funds for the Wake Forest
chapel. From these two appeals during 1944 we shall receive nearly
$100,000. Now our task is to transfer this $100,000 to the Undesignated Co-
operative Program during 1945. If this can be done then we should receive
for the Undesignated Cooperative Program $825,000 without the churches
really giving any more than they are now giving. But if we can step up
the Undesignated Cooperative Program by 25 per cent— and that is about
the percentage of increase in 1944 over 1943 — the receipts in 1945 should be
well beyond the one million mark. That must be our goal, not a penny less.
In 1944 we are dividing the undesignated receipts on the basis or 60 per
cent for State Objects and 40 per cent for Southwide Objects. Now that
our debts are well-nigh paid a change in this division is possible. One of the
128 N. C. Baptist State Convention
important matters before this Convention is a wise decision concerning this
division of funds. A recommendation concerning this matter is made at the
close of this report.
We call attention again to the fact that in addition to the Cooperative
Program there are regular days which should be observed by all the churches
because of their great educational value. Moreover, until such time as all
the churches get on a sound budget basis and give a large share of their
total receipts for Convention objects — perhaps divide their receipts on a
fifty-fifty vasis — these special days should be used as a means of calling on
the people to make special offerings. Let us remember that these special
days are :
Home and Foreign Mission Day — Some Sunday in March.
Hospital — Mother's Day in May.
State Missions — Fourth Sunday in October.
Orphanage — Thanksgiving Day.
116.
X. REPORT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST
HISTORICAL COMMISSION
By G. W. Paschal
The past year has been one of normal progress.
In January, 1944, Volumes II and III of the History of Wake Forest
College, by G. W. Paschal, came from the press. Volume I was published
in 1935, and the history of the College is now complete from the beginning
in 1834 to 1943. The three volumes, in their more than 1,750 pages, con-
stitute not only a definitive history of the College, but contain much of
general interest on matters relating to the religious and educational devel-
opment in our state and denomination in the past century. All three vol-
umes may be ordered' from Mr. E. B. Earnshaw, Bursar, Wake Forest,
North Carolina. The price for the three is five dollars.
Constant additions are being made to the Baptist Collection in the Wake
Forest College Library. Books and pamphlets and periodicals needed to
fill in gaps are sought for and purchased with a special fund provided by
the Trustees of the College. Through the cooperation of Secretary Hug-
gins and Editor Carpenter of the Biblical Recorder, current numbers of our
more important Baptist papers are regularly received and filed for binding.
During the past year several church record books, some more than a cen-
tury old, have been entrusted to the Library for safe keeping. Considerable
progress has been made in building up complete files of the annuals of the
Baptist Conventions of the Southern States. Donations have been made by
more than seventy persons, among them ten volumes of the Christian Index
given shortly before his death by Dr. B. D. Ragsdale, of Mercer University.
The resources of the Baptist Collection are in constant requisition by
students of our Baptist history. Graduate students of other institutions
sometimes work for weeks in the Library, finding here materials not avail-
able elsewhere for their theses. At present Dr. L. M. Freeman of Meredith
College is using the files of minutes of the Raleigh Association in the
preparation of a much-needed history of that association.
Annual of Session 1944 129
117.
XI. NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST FOUNDATION, INC.
T. S. Johnson, Secretary
On September 25, 1944, the North Carolina Baptist Foundation, Inc., was
administering trust funds in the total amount of $192,270.98, which includes
$3,702.59 of cash income received and not yet paid out to beneficiaries as of
the date of the report of the fiscal agent.
This represents an increase in assets during the year of $26,149.59.
The assets of the Foundation and the change made in each classification
during the past year are as follows :
Real Estate $ 22,178.02 ? 1,101.00 Decrease
Building and Loan Stock 11,500.00 700.00 Increase
Preferred Stock 18,305.00 1,716.50 Increase
Miscellaneous Bonds 84,457.48 34,870.25 Increase
Notes Secured by Deed of Trust (4%) ... . 12,122.24 44.44 Increase
Do (4M%) • • None 1 ,000.00 Decrease
Do (4ji%).. 12,297.24 750.84 Increase
Do (5%) 8,003.25 2,001 .93 Decrease
Do (6%) 7,500.00 2,700.00 Decrease
Common Stock 9,791.04 2,922.50 Decrease
Cash Principal Balances 2,414.12 2,689.26 Decrease
Cash Income Balances 3,702.59 464.25 Increase.
Totals $192,270.98 $26,131.59 Increase
The total gross income from these funds amounted to $6,009.49 during the
fiscal year. Of this amount $5,004.50 was paid out to beneficiaries and the
cash income balance (not yet paid) to beneficiaries was increased during the
year by $464.25.
The following expenses were paid :
Taxes on real estate $ 91.66
Repairs on property 41.09
Insurance premiums 23.30
General expense 88.96
Commission of fiscal agent 295.73
$540.74
The trust funds of the Foundation are arranged in groups according to
the purpose for which the trusts were established :
No. Fund Donors Total Assets
8900 General T. B. Parker $ 4,372.34
8901 Aged Ministers' Relief Noah Biggs 57,952.43
Nannie L. McLean
W. D. Adams
P. D. Camp
W. O. Johnson
8902 Mills Home W. L. Carter 33,408.31
Ida Y. Rogers
O. L. Pittman
Henrietta S. Jarman
8903 Roanoke Association Noah Biggs 4,500.00
8904 Church Buildings Roanoke Association. Noah Biggs 5,000.00
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8505
8906
8S07
8 f 09
8910
8911
8912
8913
8914
8915
8916
8917
Fund
Donor
Ministerial Association Noah Biggs
Baptist Hospital W. L. Carter
State Missions D. P. Bridges
Y. M. Whisenunt
Margaret McDade
H. C. Bridger
B. F. Huntley
Meredith College Student Loan Fund. .Henrietta S. Jarman.
Mills Home and Missions G. H. Church
Total Assets
2,214.66
1,700.00
40,026.43
O. L. Pittman
P. D. Camp
D.'P. Dellinger
D. P. Bridges (Cash)
Gethsemane Baptist Church
Christian Education
Boiling Springs Educational Fund
General
State Missions O. L. Pittman
W. M. U. Scholarship
In Memory of Mrs. Edna R. Harris
Clement Bapt : st Church John E. Briggs
Medical Department Dr. Wayland Mitchell .
Wake Forest College
Cash Balances
4,933.50
8,125.78
2,424.19
7,410.06
735.88
439.45
2,497.50
5,653.19
3,700.00
1,500.00
6,116.71
Totals $192,270.98
The following table will show for the past five years the comparative
income on the total fund and on the assets after deducting unproductive real
estate :
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Fiscal Agent
North Carolina Baptist Foundation
Statement showing income for period September 5, 1939 to September 25,
1944.
Gross
Income
Annual
Paid to
Incomt
** Yield
Beneficiaries
*
Assets
Collected
%
or Invested
$146,040.69 $7,040.
14
4.8%
$6,200.00
148,
,398.
90
6,526.
53
4.4%
5,340.00
155
,466.
.77
6,023.
18
3.9%
4,620.00
162
,883.
.05
6,033.
.50
3.7%
5,210.33
188
,568,
.39
5,913.
99
3.1%
5,004.50
Do 9-25-41
Do 9-25-42
Do 9-25-43
Do 9-25-44
Annual Average for Period . . $160,271.56 $6,307.47 3.9% $5,274.97 (3.3%)
Yield on Assets after deducting Unproductive Real Estate
Per Annua' Report of 9-25-40 $133,340.69 5.3%
Do 9-25-41 135,698.90 4.8%
Do 9-25-42
Do 9-25-43
Do 9-25-44
143,666.77 4.2%
151,083.05 4%
176,768.39 3.3%
Annual Average for Period . . $148,111.56 4.3%
(3.6%)
*Assets as shown include Real Estate, Securities, Notes and Uninvested Principal Cash, but do not
include Income Cash Balances.
**Yield based on Assets held in Accounts as of Annual Accounting dates.
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The Secretary repeats the recommendation made in every annual report
since 1940, details of which recommendation may be found in our previous
reports. The Foundation offers an easy, sound and economical way to raise
money and to provide for its safe investment and management. Every year
that the Baptists of North Carolina allow the Foundation to go forward with
only nominal support is a year longer under a less efficient system of
investment.
118.
XII. THE BAPTIST BOOK STORE
(Owned jointly by the Baptist Sunday School Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention and the General Board of the Baptist State Convention
of North Carolina.)
Mrs. Roger P. Marshall, Manager
The purpose of the Baptist Book Store is to serve North Carolina Bap-
tists with the best in books and supplies needed for every department of
the church, and to encourage the reading of more and better books in the
homes of our denomination. All books, Bibles, and supplies are sold strictly
at publishers' prices, at a fair percentage of profit, which is divided equally
between the Baptist Sunday School Board and the North Carolina Mission
Board and is used for general mission purposes. Since ours is the only de-
nominational book store in the State, a great many books and supplies are sold
to people and churches of other denominations.
Net sales for the year ending December 31, 1943, amounted to $134,202.22,
an increase of $36,449.04, or 37 per cent over 1942. This is an interesting
comparison with the sales ten years ago, 1933, which amounted to only
$22,647.28. The sales turned over the inventory five times.
Write for free catalogues.
119.
XIII. RECOMMENDATIONS
1. That the division of Undesignated Cooperative Program funds as be-
tween State Objects and Southern Baptist Convention Objects be on a 55-45
basis, and that the funds so designated for State Objects be divided as follows:
Christian Education (to include not more than 1^4%
for Ministerial Education and for the education
of the pastors now serving our churches) 34
State Missions 11
Hospital 8
Ministers' Retirement Fund 2%
Total 55
2. That the Convention authorize a continuance of the work with our
Negro and Indian brethren, and that the appropriations be made as generous
as the income of the Convention will permit.
3. That the work at Oteen, Samarcand and at the sanatoriums — Aberdeen
and Black Mountain — be continued ; and that with reference to Oteen the
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other states that have soldier-patients there be requested to continue the
support they have been giving, due to the fact that the recognized Protestant
chaplain now serving the hospital is a Baptist.
4. That the Board be authorized to continue to work on the plan which
will place in the field the best available man, whose duty it will be to solicit
large contributions in the form of gifts, wills, living trusts, and insurance
policies, for our several institutions and agencies; and that all tht institu-
tions and agencies of the Convention be asked to cooperate, in so far as it
is possible, with respect (1) to providing the salary and expenses, (kj to
selecting the man, and (3) to furnishing him with full information as to
needs and prospects. Further, that the Board be authorized to consider
combining the work outlined above with Laymen's Work, since conceivably
one man might be able to carry on in an effective way both activities.
5. That the Convention give assurance to officials and agencies of the
Southern Baptist Convention of the complete cooperation of officials and
agencies of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina in the Centen-
nial Crusade; that North Carolina will undertake to raise an over-all total
of $2,000,000 as its share of the over-all goal of the Southern Baptist Con-
vention for the uses of the agencies of both conventions ; that full support
will be given to the effort to reach and win at least one million people in the
Southland to Christ during the next year, and likewise to enlist those in the
churches not now enlisted ; that to this end the Convention call on all the
churches to add to their Cooperative Program goals for 1945 the amount
received in 1944 for the Hundred Thousand Club, estimated at $60,000; and
that in addition to that each church undertakes to raise its Cooperative
Program objective by 33Vs%.
6. That the General Secretary be authorized and instructed to make an
appeal to individuals and churches during the remaining weeks of 1944 for
funds for the Wake Forest chapel, in order that the money now owed on
the chapel may be paid, if possible ; and that whatever amount may be due
at the end of the year, together with the amount that will be needed to com-
plete the chapel, be a first charge against the Cooperative Program funds
accruing to Education in 1945, and set aside for building purposes.
7. That the Convention adopt the recommendations of the Education
Council printed herein with respect to the amount allocated for current support
as shown by the report of the Education Council appearing on page 76 of the
Advance Report.
8. That the Board be authorized and empowered to set aside an amount
not to exceed $7,500 for the use of the Allied Church League for the Abolition
of Beverage Alcohol ; and that the Convention nominate 55 persons to be
elected by the Board of Trustees as the Convention's representatives on the
board of the League; and that on some Sunday in January, preferably the
last Sunday in the month, every pastor in the State be requested to give his
people a message on temperance, and inform them of what is going on
among the Christian people of the State to rid North Carolina of beverage
alcohol.
9. That the Convention authorize the General Board to set aside out of
State Mission fund an amount not to exceed $7,500 for the purpose of aid-
ing the church at H'ayesville in their effort to build a church building which
would be a worthy memorial to Dr. George W. Truett; and that the Gen-
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eral Secretary be authorized to urge the churches of the State to provide an
equal amount, it being understood that the members of the Hayesville Church
will provide a like amount.
10. That the General Board be authorized to appoint a committee of five to
investigate the possibility of using the Fruitland Institute property, it being
understood that this committee will report its findings to the General Board,
and it being further understood that the General Board shall have authority
to sell the property, if this appears to be the wise course, subject of course to
the approval of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
11. That the money accruing to Debt Service during the remainder of the
calendar year, after present obligations are met, be divided on a pro rata basis
between the Baptist Hospital indebtedness and the Wake Forest Chapel in-
debtedness for the purpose of paying, or reducing, such indebtedness.
12. The General Board recommends the following resolution :
Be it resolved by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina that
the Trustees of North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc., be allowed to
borrow in the name of the North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc., a sum
not to exceed Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000.00) , or such part
of said sum as may be necessary for the erection of a new wing; and
that in order to secure said loan the Trustees of the North Carolina
Baptist Hospitals, Inc., be authorized and empowered to mortgage any
and all of said property of North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc., for
the purpose of securing this loan ; and that there be set aside during the
next ten-year period 8% of the Undesignated Cooperative Program funds
for the use of the Hospital in carrying on its building program.
134 N. C. Baptist State Convention
AUDITOR'S STATEMENT
Executive Committee of the General Board,
Baptist State Convention cf North Carolina,
Raleigh, North Carolina
Gentlemen:
According to your instructions, we have audited the books and records of the Convention for the
twelve months ended December 31, 1944, and in the following tabulations we show the Revenue and
Expenses of the General Fund, together with all Cash Receipts and Disbursements for the other funds.
Exhibit "A" shows the Revenue and Expenses of the General Fund, together with the distribution of
the Revenue after paying expenses chargeable to the undesignated revenue, and Exhibit "N" is a sum-
mary of the net debt of the Convention.
All Cash Receipts were found to have been promptly deposited in the bank and Disbursements were
found supported by cancelled checks, invoices, etc., and expenses were properly classified. Our examina-
tion did not disclose any evidence of irregularities and we believe the funds have been carefully and honestly
handled and properly accounted for.
Just below is a summary, not audited, but prepared from the reports of the various institutions, show-
ing the total of all income for Convention objects for the calendar year 1944:
INCOME FOR ALL CONVENTION OBJECTS
Calendar Year 1944
Undesignated : ? 737,634.85
W. M. U. Specials 17,567.80
Designated for Hundred Thousand Club 58,478.28
Designated for State Missions . 80, 3 14. 78
Designated for Foreign Missions 255,640.16
Designated for Home Missions 51, 668 . 40
Designated for Ministerial Relief 4,365.56
Designated for Ministerial Education 874.78
Designated for Education — Convention Debt 153.81
Designated for North Carolina Hospital 94,573.33
Designated for Current Support 3,847.25
Designated for Wake Forest Chapel Building Fund 41,112.14
Designated for American Bible Society 2,450.25
Designated for Louisville Seminary 4, 554 . 43
Designated for Southwestern Chapel 190.15
Designated for Baptist Orphanage 358,863.65
GRAND TOTAL 31, 712, 289. 62
Respectfully submitted,
A. T. Allen and Company
Certified Public Accountants
Raleigh, N. C, February 20, 1945.
Exhibit "A"
REVENUE AND EXPENSES— GENERAL FUND
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Revenue:
From Churches — Undesignated ?737 ,634 . 85
W. M. U. Funds Sent Direct — (See Contra in Disbursements) 17,567.80
Total Revenue to Account for 3755,202.65
Expenses Chargeable to Undesignated Revenue:
Salaries Paid:
General Secretary and Treasurer J5 5, 700 . 00
Bookkeeper 2,220.00
Office Secretary 2,220.00
Assistant Bookkeeper 1,200.00 11,340.00
Travel Expense and Car Insurance 1,049.34
Rent Expense — General Secretary and Treasurer 600.00
Office Rent 864.00
Printing 500.08
Postage 1,001.55
Telephone and Telegraph 315.40
Audit— General. ... 250.00
Supplies and Repairs 135.19
Bond Premiums 168. 62
Compensation Insurance 224 . 15
Expense Board and Committee Meetings 704.17
Social Security- — Employees' Retirement Fund 1,494.93
Publishing Receipts 45 7. 50
City Missions 3, 542 . 00
Bank Service Charges 437.05
$ 23,083.98
Promotion:
Salaries $ 4,695.00
Travel.. . 436.76
Associational Promotion 8,356.43
Baptist Radio Hour— 6 Months 2,598.58
Literature and Postage 689 . 43
Meetings and Contingent t 87. 85 16, 864 . 05
Annual of Session 1944 135
W. M. U. Department:
Salaries 9,602.25
Office Rent 648.00
Printing and Postage 3,852.48 14,102.73
Total Operating Expenses 54,050. 76
ADD: W. M. U. Funds Sent Direct— (See Contra in Receipts) 17,567.80
Total 71,618.56
Distributable Balance— General Fund $683,584.09
Distribution to Other Funds:
State Missions 15% 2102,547.44
North Carolina Hospital 5% 34,182.47
Southwise Objects 40% 273,459.80
Education— Convention Debt 24% 164,010.41
Education — Ministerial Aid 1% 6,836.51
Ministers' Retirement Fund 1% 6,836.49
Education — Current Support 14% 95,710.94
100% 2683,584.09
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— STATE MISSIONS FUND
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Designated Funds J5 64,949.69
From Baptist Foundation 412.00
From Baptist Sunday School Board 11,125.03
For Salaries Pastors — Camp Areas 1,977.60
Rent McCullers Church 32.00
Southern Baptist Churches for Oteen 1,058.21
Refund— B. T. U. Assembly 760.25
Total ? 80,314.78
ADD: Share of General Fund— 15% 102,547.44
Total Receipts 3182,862.22
Balance December 31, 1943 33,449.92
Total to Account for 2216,3124.1
Disbursements:
Division of Sunday Schools:
Salaries:
Secretary $ 3,900.00
Field Workers and Associate 3,878.33
Stenographer 1,506.10 $ 9,284.43
Travel 1,089.30
Rent 302.40
Printing and Postage 645.53
Incidentals _ 388.83
Sunday School Convention 333.69
Associational Work 3, 199. 47
Vacation Bible Schools 145.15
Better Teaching Clinic 388.43
Total Sunday School Work g 15,777.23
Division of Training Union:
Salaries:
Secretary J 3,450.00
Associate 1,500.00
Y. P. Workers 945.00
Intermediate Worker 1,232.48
Stenographer 1,560.00 $ 8,687.48
Travel 1,101.56
Rent... 222.00
Printing and Postage 519.79
Incidentals ... _ . 392.59
B. T. U. Assembly 1,550.10
Associational Work 1,355.89
Total Division Training Union 13,829.41
Division of Student Work:
Salary — Student Secretary $ 3,000.00
Salary — Stenographer 1,3 80. 00
Travel 552.65
Retreats 231.40
Youth Revivals 686.54
Rent 222.00
Postage, Supplies and Incidentals 815.08
Printing Reveille 430.06
136 N. C. Baptist State Convention
Salary Secretary — Greensboro 1,130.50
Travel and Incidentals 390.47
Salary Secretary— E.C.T.C 1,596.00
Travel and Student Room 681.43
Salary Secretary— A.S.T.C 796.34
Travel and Incidentals 51.40
Salary — Student Secretary:
Meredith 3 600.00
Chapel Hill 295.00
Duke University 668.75 3 1,563.75
Travel — Student Secretaries 137.80
Total Division of Student Work $ 13,665.42
Total Department of Christian Education 3 43 ,272.06
Other State Missions Work:
General Missionaries — Salary and Travel $ 6,292.83
Indian Work— Salary and Travel 1,500.00
Sanatoriums:
Oteen $ 2,400.00
Samarcand and Sanatorium 502.00
W. N. C 253.00 3,155.00
Aid for Negro Conventions 1 ,800.00
Camp Work:
Fayetteville 965 . 00
Windsor Terrace 2,700.00
Spring Lake 1,526.00
Jacksonville 3,300.00
Wilmington 1,060.00
Carolina Beach 2,880.00
General Personnel 15.00
Equipment 364.74 12,810.74
Church Building:
Boone $ 4,000.00
Roanoke Association 250.00
Pullen Memorial 8,250.00
Mars Hill 9,343.50
General 8,290.99
Wilmington 2,898.10
Carolina Beach 9,062.52
Fayetteville— Windsor Terrace 7,000.00 49,095.11
Biblical Recorder — Current Support 3, 300. 00
Aid on Pastors' Salaries 29, 156.33
Subscriptions to Biblical Recorder for Pastors 1,729.47
Allied Church League 5,260.75
Miscellaneous:
Pastors' Schools and Conferences 3 2,465.01
Annuity Insurance — Spillman Cottage 331.95
Annuity Insurance — Bridges Cottage 120.00
Upkeep Chapel Hill Church 1,500.00
Convention Minutes and Expense 1, 756. 00
Salary and Expense — Recording Secretary 231 .00
Publicity and Other Convention Expense 122.11
Statistics, Printing and Postage 218.59
State Mission Day Expense 556.55
Study of Rural Churches 365. 21
Movie Equipment 7.65
General Mission Work 80.00
Preparation of Manuscript History of N. C. Baptists .. 600.00
Contingent 2,657.72 11,011.79
Transfer to State Missions Reserve Fund 15,000.00
Total Other State Mission Work 3140,512.02
TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS— STATE MISSIONS FUND 3183,784.08
BALANCE DECEMBER 31, 1944 32,528.06
Total Accounted for 3216,312.14
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— MINISTERS' RELIEF FUND SPECIAL
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
From Baptist Foundation 3 1,900.00
Balance December 31, 1943 4,263.23
Total to Account for 3 6,163.23
Annual of Session 1944 137
Disbursements: ,.„„.
Aid to Aged Ministers » 100.00
Balance December 31, 1944 6,063.23
Total Accounted for 3 6,163.23
Exhibit "D"
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— EDUCATION— MINISTERIAL AID
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Designated Funds and from Baptist Foundation 3 874.78
ADD: Share of General Fund 1% 6,836.51
Total Receipts 3 7,711.29
Balance December 31, 1943 2,677 .65
Total to Account for 3 10,388.94
Disbursements:
Paid to Wake Forest College 3 3,600.00
Paid to Mars Hill College 1,200.00
Paid to Wingate College 400.00
Paid to Campbell College 600.00
Paid to High Point College 55.00
Paid to Gardner Webb College 600.00
Paid to A. L. T. College 37.50
Total Disbursements 3 6,492.50
Balance December 31, 1944 3,896.44
Total Accounted for 3 10,388.94
Exhibit "E"
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— EDUCATION CONVENTION DEBT
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Designated Funds 3 153.81
ADD: Share of General Fund 24% 164,010.44
Apportionment hundied Thcusar.d Club 58,210.80
Total 222,375.05
ADD: Transfer from hundred Thousand Club —
November and December 1944 to close account 10,234.52
Total Receipts 232,609.57
balance December 31, 1943 — Per Audit Baptist State
Convention 3 31,197.23
Debt Service Fund 371.74 31,568.97
Tualto Account for 3264,178.54
Disbursements:
Transfer from Convention Debt Fund:
Fund to close Dec. 31, 1944:
Balance per Resolution
To Wake Forest Chapel Building Fund 73% 3 21,898.54
N. C. Baptist Hospital 27% 8,099.46 29,998.00
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co.— Principal 227,500.00
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co.- — Interest 3,1 89. 80
Mars Hill Note— Principal Payments 3,300.00
Mars hill Note — Interest Payments 82.50
Operating Expenses:
Audit and Safety Deposit Box Rent 65.00
Check to Close Debt Service Fund Bank Account in Transit to Baptist
State Convention on December 31, 1944 43.24
Total Disbursements 3264,178.54
Balance December 31, 1944 None
Total Accounted for 3264,178.54
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITAL
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Designated Funds 3 28,999.74
ADD: Share of General Fund— 5% 34,182.47
Share of Hundred Thousand Club— Nov-Dec. 1944—27% 8,099.46
3 71,281.67
ADD: Funds Sent Direct — (See Contra in Disbursements) 65,573.59
Total Receipts 3136,855.26
138 N. C. Baptist State Convention
Balance December 31, 1943 3,490.39
Total to Account for £140,345.65
Disbursements:
To North Carolina Hospital 3 10,121.29
Payments to Wachovia Bank and Trust Company —
On Principal 35,000.00
On Interest.. 1,467.89
Payments to Security Life and Trust Company —
On Principal 24,400.00
On Interest 612.00
To Biblical Recorder . 37.50
Funds Sent Direct— (Contra in Receipts) 65,573.59
Total Disbursements J137.212.27
Balance December 31, 1944 3,133.38
Total Accounted for 3140,345.65
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— MINISTERS' RETIREMENT FUND
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts *
Share of General Fund— 1% $ 6,836.49
Balance December 31, 1943 _ 5,216.82
Total to Account for 3 12,053.31
Disbursements:
Convention Share of Retirement Fund 3 7,673 .92
Salary— Bookkeeper 1,680.00
Salary and Rent— W. H. Moore 2,275.00
Travel ... -213.36
Supplies, Printing, Postage, etc 351. 83
Total Disbursements 3 12,194.11
Overdraft December 31, 1944 140.80
Total Accounted for 3 12,053.31
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— WAKE FOREST CHAPEL BUILDING FUND
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Designations 3 41,012.14
Loan — Wachovia Bank and Trust Co 65,000.00
ADD: Transfer from Education Convention Debt — Nov. and Dec. 1944
Balance— 73% 21,898.54
Total Receipts 3127,910.68
Overdraft December 31, 1943 9,203.82
Total to Account for 3118,706.86
Disbursements:
To Treasurer Wake Forest Chapel Building Fund 3 41,400.00
Paid on Note — Wachovia Bank and Trust Company 50,000.00
Paid on Interest — Wachovia Bank and Trust Company 2,517.50
Postage, Typing Services, etc ' 32.00
Total Disbursements 3 93,949.50
Balance December 31, 1944 24,757.36
Total Accounted for 3118,706.86
Exhibit "I' '
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Designations 3 2, 450. 25
Balance December 31, 1943 193.85
Total to Account for 3 2,644.10
Disbursements:
Remitted to American Bible Society 3 2,383 .04
Balance December 31, 1944 261.06
Total Accounted for 3 2,644.10
Annual of Session 1944 139
Exhibit "J"
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— CURRENT SUPPORT
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Designations 3 3, 847 . 25
ADD: Share of General Fund— 14% 95,710.94
Total Receipts... $ 99,558.19
Balance December 3 1 , 1943 None
Total to Account for $ 99,558.19
Disbursements:
' Current Support:
Wake Forest College $ 20,000.00
Meredith College 20,000.00
Campbell College 12,500.00
Mars Hill College 15,060.00
Wingate College 7,276.45
Audits Institutions 2,495.00
Education — Council Meetings 23 7. 94
Total Disbursements £ 77,569.39
Balance December 31, 1944 21,988.80
Total Accounted for $ 99,558.19
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— LOUISVILLE SEMINARY CHAPEL
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Designations ? 4,554.43
Balance December 31, 1943 76.50
(Included in Southwide Objects Fund) ■ — ■
Total to Account for $ 4,630.93
Disbursements:
Remitted for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky S 3,750.93
Balance December 31, 1944 880.00
Total Accounted for , 8 4,630.93
Exhibit "L"
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— SOUTHWESTERN CHAPEL
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Designations — November and December Only 8 190. 15
Balance Janurary 1, 1945 None
Total to Account for $ 190.15
Disbursements:
Remitted for Southwestern Theological Seminary Chapel, Dallas, Texas..? 41.50
Balance December 31, 1944 148.65
Total Accounted for $ 190.15
Exhibit "M'
CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS— SOUTHWIDE OBJECTS FUND
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Designations:
Home Missions $ 51,668.40
Ministerial Relief — Regular 2 ,465 . 56
Foreign Missions 222,317. 16
ADD: Foreign Missions Funds Sent Direct —
(Contra in Disbursements) 33,323.00
Total 2309,774.12
ADD: Share of General Fund— 40% 273,459.80
Total Receipts _ 8583,233.92
ADD: Balance Dec. 31, 1943 8 97,390.07
LESS: Louisville Seminary Chapel — to Exhibit "K" 76.50
Hundred Thousand Club Unapportioned 12-31-43 10,072.44
Balance Southwide Objects December 31, 1943 87,241.13
Total to account for S670.475.05
140 N. C. Baptist State Convention
Disbursements:
Foreign Missions:
Paid on Designations . 3186,387.67
Funds Sent Direct— (Contra in Receipts) 33,323.00 3219, 710:67
Home Missions — Paid on Designations 50,958.73
Ministerial Relief — Paid on Designations 2,344.92
Paid on Southwide Cooperative Program 265 ,848.22
Total Disbursements 3538,862.54
Balance December 31, 1944 131,612.51
Total Accounted for 3670,475.05
Exhibit "N"
BIBLICAL RECORDER BUILDING FUND-
AUDITED CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Receipts:
Rents from Building:
Baptist Book Store 3 1,414.80
Baptist State Convention 2,138.40
Biblical Recorder 799.20
Bynum Printing Co 3, 240 . 00
Kings Bindery 505.00 3 8,097.40
Baptist Book Store— Profits 9,294.84
Miscellaneous:
For Repairs to Sunday School Room Floor 3 50.00
Sale of Stoker 425.00
M. A. Huggins— Rent Oct.-Nov. and Dec. 1944 150.00 625.00
Loan — Wachovia Bank and Trust Company 23,500.00
Total Receipts 3 41,517.24
Balance December 31, 1943 120.70 3 41,637.94
Disbursements:
Operation of Building:
1944 City and County Taxes 3 383.59
N. C. Intangible Tax 8.37
Insurance _ 25 8. 75
Lights, Water and Fuel 1,401.32
Supplies 158.27
Repairs 301.09
Janitor — Salary 1 ,471 .35
Relief and Annuity Board 43.20 4,025.94
Payments on Loan— Wachovia Bank —
Principal __3 12,500.00
Interest 1,015.00 13,515.00
Underwood Property:
Purchase Price 3 22,226.55
1943 Taxes 40.85
Revenue Stamps.. 24.15
Recording Deed 1.50
Insurance 205 . 00
Interest 379.91
Repairs 1,073.75 23,951.71
Total Disbursements 3 41 ,492 . 65
Balance December 31, 1944
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company 145.29
Total Accounted for 3 41, 63 7. 94
Exhibit "O"
STATEMENT OF PRESENT FINANCIAL CONDITION
December 31, 1944
Assets Available:
Cash in Banks — Regular Account:
Baptist State Convention— December 31, 1944 ..3225,128.69
Check to Close Debt Service Fund Bank Account 12-31-44 in Transit
to Baptist State Convention — per Exhibit "E" 43. 24
Biblical Recorder Building Fund Operating Account 145.29
State Missions Reserve Fund —
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company Trust Department
December 31, 1944 30,000.00
Total Available Assets <. .3255,317.22
Annual of Session 1944 141
Liabilities:
Fruitland Institute — Claims Guaranteed £ 1,750.00
Biblical Recorder Building Fund— Loans 42,500.00
North Carolina Hospital Building Fund— Notes 27,000.00
Wake Forest Chapel Building Fund — Note:
Due Wachovia Bank and Trust Co 50,000.00
Due Southwide Objects 131,612.51
Total Liabilities 252,862.51
Assets in Excess of Liabilities £ 2,454. 71
Exhibit "P"
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED
CURRENT FUND INCOME AND EXPENSE
Year Ended December 31, 1944
Income:
Churches, Sunday Schools, W.M.S.— Cash 3348,094.73
Churches, Sunday Schools, W.M.S.— Clothing 2,588.59
Churches, Sunday Schools, W.M.S.— Food 8,180.33
Individuals — Cash for Designated Children 8,114.87
Individuals— Cash for Special Gifts 9,660.99
The Duke Endowment 14,630.84
Interest — Current Fund 1 ,323 . 21
Interest — From Endowment Funds 18,108.59
Interest — From Sundry Trusts 1, 968 . 34
Dividends and Rents 2,431.14
Profit from Print Shop and Charity and Children 3,031.45 £418,133.08
Expense:
Maintenance Costs:
At Mills Home £171,327.17
At Kennedy Home 75, 355. 33
Extra Institutional Service 11,323.88
Annuities Paid 4,704.78 262,711.16
Excess of Income Over Expenses £155 ,421 .92
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
December 31, 1944
Assets:
Plant and Equipment— Capital Fund £755,919.90
Current Fund — Cash — Bonds — Inventories 408, 187. 15
Endowment Fund — Cash — Bonds — Mortgages, etc 752,637.05
£1,916,744.10
Liabilities None
Net Worth £1,916,744.10
Exhibit "Q"
NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITAL INCORPORATED
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
December 31, 1944
Assets -
Cash— Current Fund £ 44,248.01
Cash— Plant Fund 455.29 £ 44,703.30
Accounts Receivable — Net ' 40, 95 1. 62
War Bonds — Current Fund £ 56.25
War Bonds— Plant Fund 37.50 93.75
Inventories — Current Fund 17, 608. 27
Prepaid insurance — Current Fund 1,207.35
Due from Duke Endowment 31,410.03
Securities — Endowment Fund 3 ,225 .95
Land, Buildings and Equipment — Less Reserve 970,556.67
Total Assets £1,109,756.91
Liabilities:
Accounts Payable — Current Fund £ 776.75
Mortgage Payable— Plant Fund .' 60,000.00
Note Payable to Bank— Plant Fund 65,000.00
Total Liabilities £ 125,776.75
Current Fund £186,704.75
Endowment Fund 3,225 .95
Plant Fund 794,049.46 983,980.16
Total Liabilities and Surplus £1,109,756.91
142 N. C. Baptist State Convention
Exhibit "R"
NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITAL, INCORPORATED
OPERATING STATEMENT
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Income From Patients 3430,606.49
Operating Expenses:
Administration 3 30,780.86
Dietary 140,107.75
Household and Property:
Laundry )5 26,868.68
Housekeeping 33, 844 .41
Heat, Light, Power and Water 22,835.11
Maintenance and Repairs 18,142.62
Depreciation 40,998.14
3142,688.96
Add: Decrease in Inventories , 864.32 143,553.28
Professional Services:
Medical and Surgical 3 24,686.33
Anesthesia 13, 63 5. 56
Oxygen 1,824.20
House Staff 10,514.60
Record Room 11,153.94
Pharmacy 22,547.19
Blood Bank 3,997.43
Nursing 79,856.08
Cadet Nurse Salaries 3,713.56
Nursing School 10,667.44
X-Ray 33,275.14
Laboratories 24, 279 . 64
Out-Patient Services 6,293.32
Miscellaneous 325.00 246,769.43 561,211.32
Operating Loss 3130,604.83
Non-Operating Income:
Mothers' Day Contributions 3 65,598.59
State Baptist Convention — Net 9,460.41
Nursing Cadet Training 20,043 .56
Nursing Cadet Construction 15,750.00
Welfare 21,797.06
Duke Endowment 31 ,410.00
Contributions to Building Fund 15,643.10
Miscellaneous Contributions 8,997.62
Recoveries on Accounts Previously Charged off 5,250.76
Rent 2,995.00
Sale of Junk, Refuse, etc 924.35
Sale of Equipment 583 . 17
Miscellaneous 1,772.99 200,226.61
3 69,621.78
Non-Operating Expense:
Denominational Activities 3 8,659.56
Mothers' Day 996.07
Rent 8,070.63
Adjustment of Accounts Receivable Control 852.91
Miscellaneous Expense and Interest — Plant Fund 8,821.90 27,401.07
Net Income Before Adjustment of Reserve for Doubtful Accounts 3 42,220.71
Adjustment of Reserve for Doubtful Accounts 41,045 .91
Net Income $ 83,266.62
BAPTIST BOOK STORE
Raleigh, North Carolina
AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENT
BALANCE SHEET
December 31, 1944
Assets:
Current:
Cash in Bank 3 19.22
Petty Cash 10.00
Accounts Receivable 3 13,425.97
Less: Reserve for Doubtful None 13,425.97
Merchandise Inventory 24,210.88
Total Current Assets 3 37,666.07
Annual of Session 1944 143
Fixed Assets:
Furniture and Fixtures 3 3,862.14
Less: Reserve for Depreciation 2,539.00
Book Value of Fixed Assets 1,323.14
Total Assets 3 38,989.21
Liabilities:
No Liabilities . 3 — —
Net Worth 38,989.31
Total Liabilities and Net Worth 3 38,989.21
BAPTIST BOOK STORE
Raleigh, North Carolina
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
12 Months Ended December 31, 1944
Sales 3159,893.36
Less: Returns and Allowances _3 8,899. 14
Excise Tax 73. 26
N. C. Sales Tax 1,511.27 10,483.67
Net Sales 3149,409.69
Cost of Sales:
Inventory January 1, 1944 3 18,541.90
Purchases Current Year 100, 351. 54
Freight and Express 1,564.46
Total 3120,457.90
Less: Inventory December 31, 1944 24,210.88
Cost of Sales 96,247.02
Cross Profit on Sales 3 53,162.67
Operating Expenses:
Salaries 3 12,347.78
Rent 1,414.80
Advertising 2, 740 . 67
Postage 3,910.99
Travel E xpense 277. 84»
Insurance 293 .38
Telephone and Telegraph 234.27
Printing, Supplies and Stationery 689.19
Depreciation 222. 65
General Expense 1 ,078. 15
Total Operating Expe uses 23, 209 . 72
Operating Profit 3 29,952.95
Other Income:
Cancellation of Old Outstanding Checks 3 19.22
Recoveries on Bad Debts 39.97 59.19
Operating Profit and Other Income 3 30,012. 14
Other Deductions:
Bad Accounts Charged Off 3 108.32
To Cancel Debit Balance — Returned Checks 7.89
Total Deductions 116.21
Net Profit for Year '. 3 29,895.93
Respectfully submitted,
A. T. ALLEN & COMPANY
Raleigh, North Carolina, February 20, 1945. Certified Public Accountants
STATISTICS
AND OTHER DATA
146
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